Abraham Lincoln Inquiry

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Name: Valeria Fonseca Reyna
Grade: 7B

Date: 11th/04/16

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Questions:
1. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
2. Name all the jobs he had as an adult.
3. Did Abraham Lincoln go to school?
4. What did Abraham Lincoln like to do the most?
5. When was he elected president of the United States? How was he elected?
6. Add some pictures of him in this document
7. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? Why is it so important?
8. Why do you think Abraham Lincoln is called one of our greatest presidents?
9. How did Abraham Lincoln die?
10. What is the Lincoln Memorial? Why was it made?
11. What is Lincoln's Gettysburg address? What was the Battle of Gettysburg about?
12. Make a brief summary about his life and achievements.
13. Name some interesting curious facts about Lincoln.
14. Reflection: What are your expectations about this new book that we are going to
read? What are you expecting to learn?
15. References (follow APA rules)

Answers:

1. Abraham Lincoln was born on Washington, United States (12/Feb/1809)

2. Abraham Lincoln held many jobs and positions throughout his lifetime prior to
entering politics including:

Military - He served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 to help fight off Native
American tribes.
Postmaster - After an unsuccessful run for the Illinois Legislature, he was
appointed the postmaster of New Salem, Illinois on May 7, 1833 and served until the
office closed May 30, 1836. The mail arrived once a week. If the mail was not picked up
by the person to whom it was addressed, he would deliver it, often placing it in his
stovepipe hat.
Lawyer - After his election to the state legislature, Lincoln wanted to become a
lawyer, and began to teach himself the law by reading. He was admitted to the bar in
1837, and began his career as a successful lawyer.
3. Abraham attended school on an inconsistent basis. At times, traveling teachers may
have taught at a nearby rudimentary schoolhouse, and at other times Abraham walked
several miles to the nearest school. Lincoln himself admitted that the total amount of
schooling he received in his childhood was no more than twelve months; nevertheless,
he became an excellent reader, learned to write, measure, and make division and
multiplication calculations. Abraham took his studies very seriously.

4. As a young person, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed wrestling, playing an early form of

baseball, and other athletic endeavors, but it was his humor and storytelling ability that
separated Lincoln from his peers. He employed humor to relate to people and to
compensate for a lack of confidence because he was so self-conscious of his
appearance.

5. En la Convencin Nacional del Partido Republicano del ao 1860, celebrada en la

ciudad de Chicago, Lincoln se enfrent a varios pre-candidatos republicanos poderosos
que aspiraban a la Candidatura Presidencial del partido; eran ellos William H.
Seward, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase y Edward Bates (aparte de otros menos
poderosos). Todos menos uno eran senadores activos del Congreso de Estados
Unidos, y dos haban sido gobernadores de estado; pero el carisma de Lincoln
compensaba su relativa falta de experiencia y de peso poltico. En la tercera votacin

de la Convencin, efectuada el da 16 de mayo de 1860, Lincoln derrot a sus

compaeros de partido y se convirti en el candidato oficial del partido para la
Presidencia de los Estados Unidos.
El Partido Demcrata se dividi; los demcratas de los Estados del Norte postularon la
candidatura presidencial de Stephen A. Douglas (el mismo que haba derrotado a
Lincoln en la campaa para Senador), mientras los demcratas de los Estados del Sur
lanzaron la candidatura presidencial de John C. Breckinridge (que en ese momento
era Vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos). El Partido de la Unin Constitucional lanz
un cuarto candidato presidencial, que fue el exwhig John C. Bell.
En las elecciones presidenciales del 6 de noviembre de 1860 Lincoln obtuvo el 39,82 %
de los votos populares (1 865 908 votos); Douglas sac el 29,46 % (1 380 202
sufragios); Breckinridge obtuvo el 18,10 % (848 019 votos); y Bell sac un 12,62 %
(590 901 sufragios). En resumen, los tres opositores de Lincoln haban sumado casi
tres millones de votos contra los menos de dos millones de Lincoln; pero en el Colegio
Electoral Lincoln tena 180 Grandes Electores contra 123 que sumaban sus opositores
(se necesitaban 152 para ganar). As que Lincoln fue el vencedor y qued elegido
presidente.
6.

7. The Emancipation Proclamation led the way to total abolition of slavery in the
United States.
With the Emancipation Proclamation, the aim of the war changed to include the freeing
of slaves in addition to preserving the Union. Although the Proclamation initially freed

only the slaves in the rebellious states, by the end of the war the Proclamation had
influenced and prepared citizens to advocate and accept abolition for all slaves in both
the North and South. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United
States, was passed on December 6th, 1865.
8. -Abraham Lincoln is the reason the United States is still United and began
the elimination of racism by ending slavery. To do this he began a largely
unpopular but necessary war. This made him hated to the point where he
was assassinated but he went through with his decision anyway. Would any
politician today do this? I doubt it.
-Abraham Lincoln was man you could change his ideas. Like slavery he first
thought it was good. Then he realized that slavery was wrong. He did almost
everything to fix the country. No other president thought about slavery should
be wrong or even segregation. Martin Luther king jr was not a president but
still fought for what is right. Only Abraham Lincoln thought slavery was wrong.
He was a man of changes and does what should be right among us. If he
didn't exist there still would be slavery and African Americans would not be
equally treated. So I think Abraham Lincoln should be the best president in
history.
- Because he stoped slavery.

9. United States President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes

Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American
Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The
assassination occurred five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of
Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S.
Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac.
Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. An
unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson 30 years before in 1835, and
Lincoln had himself been the subject of an earlier assassination attempt by an unknown
assailant in August 1864. The assassination of Lincoln was planned and carried out by
the well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to
revive the Confederate cause.
Booth's co-conspirators were Lewis Powell and David Herold, who were assigned to
kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt who was tasked to

kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. By simultaneously eliminating the top three people
in the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to sever the continuity of the
United States government.
Lincoln was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary Todd
Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.. He died the following day at 7:22am. The
rest of the conspirators' plot failed; Powell only managed to wound Seward, while
Atzerodt, Johnson's would-be assassin, lost his nerve and fled. The funeral and burial of
Abraham Lincoln was a period of national mourning.

10. The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the
16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the western end
of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument. The
architect was Henry Bacon; the designer of the primary statue Abraham Lincoln, 1920
was Daniel Chester French; the Lincoln statue was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers;
[2]
and the painter of the interior murals was Jules Guerin. Dedicated in 1922, it is one of
several monuments built to honor an American president. It has always been a major
tourist attraction and since the 1930s has been a symbolic center focused on race
relations.
The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated
sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by
Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address. The memorial has
been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King's "I Have a
Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, during the rally at the end of the March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Like other monuments on the National Mall including the nearby Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, and National World War II Memorial the
memorial is administered by the National Park Service under its National Mall and
Memorial Parks group. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic
Places since October 15, 1966. It is open to the public 24 hours a day. In 2007, it was
ranked seventh on the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute
of Architects. Since 2010, approximately 6 million people visit the memorial annually.

11. In November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was invited to deliver remarks,
which later became known as the Gettysburg Address, at the official dedication
ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of
the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War. Though he was not the featured
orator that day, Lincolns 273-word address would be remembered as one of the most
important speeches in American history. In it, he invoked the principles of human
equality contained in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of
the Civil War with the desire for a new birth of freedom, as well as the all-important
preservation of the Union created in 1776 and its ideal of self-government.
12. Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on Feb 12, 1809. Raised by poor
parents, he received less than a year of formal education by the time he reached the
age of 21. His primary means of education was schooling at home, using borrowed
books and the Bible.
At the age of 22, he moved to the Illinois village of New Salem in 1831, and continued
his self-education by borrowing books and teaching himself subjects such as grammar,
history, mathematics, and law. He worked as a store clerk in two different general
stores. He taught himself surveying, and worked part time at this vocation. He was also
appointed postmaster, and served in the militia for 3 months during the Black Hawk war.
Less than a year after moving to New Salem, he ran for the state legislature. Although
defeated in this initial effort he decided to run again the next term. His second effort
proved successful, and he was elected one of Sangamon County's Whig
representatives to the Illinois State Legislature in 1834. Vocally anti-slavery, he served
four consecutive terms as state legislator, and before he had left that office was
admitted to the Illinois bar. He soon became one of the most respected lawyers in the
region, known for his honesty and influential manner with juries.
In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd, a well-educated woman of a notable Kentucky
family. They eventually had four sons, only one of which (Robert Todd Lincoln) survived
to manhood.
From 1847 to 1849 Lincoln served a single term in Congress, and then went into semiretirement from politics in order to concentrate more on his law practice. The KansasNebraska Act of 1854, which allowed for the propagation of slavery into the new
territories, became a catalyst to Lincoln's decision to seek political office again. He
joined the new Republican Party in 1856 and ran for the US Senate in 1858, providing
energetic moral argument against slavery in the Lincoln-Douglas Debateswith Stephen
A. Douglas.

Even though Lincoln lost the Senate race to Douglas, he was elected President in 1860.
As a result of his nomination, eleven southern states declared their independence from
the Union. When the South fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor on April 12, 1861,
Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to help put down the rebellion.
After over a year of indecisive fighting, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation,
freeing the slaves of the rebelling southern states. The Emancipation Proclamation took
effect on January 1, 1863. Subsequent Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and
Chattanooga soon had the Southern armies permanently on the defensive. It was
during a dedication ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863 that
he presented the Gettysburg Address, now recognized as one of the world's greatest
speeches.
Lincoln was re-elected president in November of 1864.
Lincoln pushed the The Thirteenth Amendment" freeing all slaves everywhere, through
congress in late 1864/early 1865. After a great deal of political maneuvering on the part
of Lincoln, the House of Representatives passed the Thirteenth Amendment on January
31, 1865.
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, delivered less than 6 weeks before his
assassination, eloquently summed up his beliefs. These were that the underlying cause
of the war had been slavery, the war was God's punishment on the nation for its failure
to remove slavery from the land, and it was every American's duty to not only eliminate
slavery, but to re-unite the nation, forgive his or her fellow man, and build a lasting
peace among all nations.
Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 and died the following day.

13. -He was the only president to have a patent: Lincoln invented a device to free
steamboats that ran aground.
- He practiced law without a degree. Lincoln had about 18 months of formal schooling.
- He wanted women to have the vote in 1836. The future president was a suffragette
before it became fashionable.
- He was a big animal lover, but he wouldnt hunt or fish. If he were alive today, Lincoln
would be running an animal shelter.

- He really was a wrestler. Lincoln was documented as taking part in wrestling bouts.
We dont think he wore a mask or had a manager.
6. He lost in his first bid for a presidential ticket. The unknown Lincoln was an
unsuccessful vice presidential candidate in 1856 at the Republican convention.
- He never belonged to an organized church. Lincoln read the Bible daily, but he never
joined an organized church in his lifetime.
- He didnt drink, smoke, or chew. Lincoln was a simple man of tastes, and he never
drank in the White House.
- He didnt have a middle name. Lincoln went through his life with two names.
- He hated being called Abe. Apparently, he preferred being called by his last name.

14. My expectation about this book is to learn more about Abraham Lincoln, all about
his life, his personal facts, and all the things he made in life as being president of the
United States and also about his personality.

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