Introduction

• Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

• He was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky, United States.

• His family was forced out of the house & so they had to move to Indiana in 1816.

• After moving to Indiana, his mother died when he was just 9 years old.

Introduction• He was reared in a poor family on the

western frontier.• Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer in

Illinois, a Whig Party leader, state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the Congress during the 1840s.

• He was an avid reader and often sought access to any new books in the village.

• As a pre-teen, he did not like the hard labor associated with frontier life. Some in his family, and in the neighborhood, for a time considered him to be lazy

• Lincoln also agreed with the customary obligation of a son to give his father all earnings from work done outside the home until age 21. In later years, Lincoln occasionally loaned his father money.

Congressman Lincoln• In 1846, Lincoln was elected to

the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

• He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line.

• Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

President Lincoln

• On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States. He was the first president from the Republican Party.

• In August 6th , 1861 Lincoln signs a law freeing slaves being used by the confederate army .

• On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory.

• In July 1862, the Second Confiscation Act was passed, which set up court procedures that could free the slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion.

• President Lincoln played a major role in civil war, appointing most of the commanders of armies himself

President Lincoln• While the war was still

being waged, Lincoln faced reelection in 1864 & won again as the president of United States.

• On March 4, 1865, Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address

• The Civil War ended in 1865.

Great Historian Diggins concluded regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech of early 1860, "Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself."

Other enactments

• He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost.

• The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, also signed in 1862, provided government grants for agricultural colleges in each state.

• In 1861, Lincoln signed the second and third Morrill Tariff as well as the Revenue Act, introducing the theme of Income Tax in the U.S.

• Lincoln is largely responsible for the institution of the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

Memorials

Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Memorials

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Statues of Lincoln

In Kentucky In France

Statues of Lincoln

In Kentucky In France