ABRAHAM LINCOLN TRIVIA

• 1) Where was Abraham Lincoln born?

Choose Your Answer: A: Ohio, B: Iowa, C: Kentucky, D: Tennessee

• 2) Who was Abraham Lincoln named after?

Choose Your Answer: A: The biblical Abraham, B: The poet Abraham Cowley, C: The poet Abraham Sutzkever, D: His grandfather

• 3) Which of the following was NOT one of Abraham Lincoln's nicknames?

Choose Your Answer: A: Honest Abe, B: Rail Splitter, C: The Industrial Giant, D: The Great Emancipator

• 4) Who did Abraham Lincoln marry on November 4, 1842?

Choose Your Answer: A: Nora Jones, B: Martha Clark, C: Mary Todd, D: Nancy Hanks

• 5) How many children did Abraham Lincoln have?

Choose Your Answer: A: Two, B: Four, C: Six, D: None

• 6) Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President from what political party?

Choose Your Answer: A: Democratic Party, B: Republican Party, C: Federalist Party, D: Whig Party

• 7) Who was Abraham Lincoln's Vice President during the first term of his presidency?

Choose Your Answer: A: Andrew Johnson, B: Horatio King, C: Hannibal Hamlin, D: Montgomery Blair

• 8) What play was Abraham Lincoln watching when he was assassinated?

Choose Your Answer: A: The Recruiting Officer, B: The Beaux Stratagem, C: Our American Cousin, D: Macbeth

• 9) What U.S. paper currency features a portrait of Abraham Lincoln?

Choose Your Answer: A: $1 bill, B: $5 bill, C: $10 bill, D: $20 bill

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Abraham Lincoln was born in a log-cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky on February 12, 1809.

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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was named after his paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, who had been killed by Native American Indians.

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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln had many nicknames, including Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator.

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On November 4, 1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd, the daughter of Robert Smith Todd and Eliza Parker, prominent citizens of Lexington Kentucky. Abraham and Mary Lincoln remained married until his assassination in 1865. The death of her husband weighed heavily on Mary, as did the deaths of three of her children, and she became increasingly unstable. In 1875, she was committed to an insane asylum by Robert Todd Lincoln, her only surviving child. She died in 1882.

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Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln had four sons: Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), Edward Baker Lincoln (1846-1850), William Wallace Lincoln (1850-1862), and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (1853-1871). Only Robert survived into adulthood.

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In 1861, Abraham Lincoln became the first U.S. President from theRepublican Party which had been founded on February 28, 1854, primarily on the platform of opposing the expansion of slavery into new territories. The Republican Party initially consisted largely of former Whig Party members. The Whig Party and the current Democratic Party both split off from the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson.

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Hannibal Hamlin served as Abraham Lincoln's Vice President during the first term of Lincoln's presidency. Because of his close ties with the controversial Radical Republicans, however, who believed freed slaves deserved political and social equality with all other citizens, Lincoln chose to drop him from the Republican ticket in 1864 and replace him with Andrew Johnson, a Southerner and member of the Democratic Party. Lincoln won re-election but was assassinated shortly after his inauguration and Johnson became President.

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On April 14, 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by the actor John Wilkes Booth while attending an evening performance of Our American Cousin, a musical comedy by the British writer Tom Taylor.

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The U.S. five dollar bill currently features U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's portrait on the front side and the Lincoln Memorial on the back. Previous versions of the five dollar bill featured Alexander Hamilton (1862), Andrew Jackson (1869), and Ulysses S. Grant (1886).

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NOW YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN…

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