Abraham Lincoln Inquiry

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Name: Angela M. Barajas B.
Grade: 7C
Instructions:

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Answer the following questions in this document. Answer using complete
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Print this document and bring it to class ready by April 12 th. Once it is corrected,
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Questions:
1. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
On February 12 in 1809, Abraham Lincoln is born in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-is-born
2. Name all the jobs he had as an adult.
- As a young man, Lincoln held several jobs which consisted of manual labor. He
was a rail-splitter and a flat-boatman. When he moved to New Salem, Illinois he
held jobs as storekeeper, postmaster, and surveyor. He then began to study law,
and in 1836, at age 25, he was licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois.

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_jobs_did_president_Abraham_Lincol
n_have_before_he_became_president

3. Did Abraham Lincoln go to school?

Abraham Lincoln went to the school until he was 14 years old but it was not so
good. Lincoln never attended school, or any sort of university. He was entirely
self-taught, but was as educated as anyone else from that period of time. He also
taught himself law, and practiced as a lawyer.
He only went to school for 18 months, but he learned as he read books.
4. What did Abraham Lincoln like to do the most?
I think that talk express him self.
5. When was he elected president of the United States? How was he elected?

Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply
divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the
three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional
Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S.
senator for Illinois.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-elected-president
6. Add some pictures of him in this document

7. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? Why is it so important?

the proclamation is justifiably celebrated as a significant step toward the goal
of ending slavery and making African Americans equal citizens of the United
States. Coming as it did in the midst of the Civil War (186165), the
proclamation announced to the Confederacy and the world that the abolition
of slavery had become an important goal of the North in its fight against the
rebellious states of the South.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Emancipation_Proclamation.aspx
8. Why do you think Abraham Lincoln is called one of our greatest presidents?
9. How did Abraham Lincoln die?
John Wilkes Booth fired into Abraham Lincolns brain inflicted a terrible, mortal
wound. But when a prominent neurosurgeon began to investigate the
assassination, he discovered persuasive evidence that Lincolns doctors must
share the blame with Booths derringer.
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-did-lincoln-die

10. What is the Lincoln Memorial? Why was it made?

- The Lincoln Memorial was designed by Henry Bacon; the style is that of a Greek Doric
temple with 36 enormous columns. Inside the building is a huge statue of a sitting
Lincoln. Over Lincoln's head is the inscription:
"IN THIS TEMPLE
AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE

FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION

THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
IS ENSHRINED FOREVER."
-

Lincoln's statue was sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)

- http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/monuments/lincolnmemorial/
11. What is Lincoln's Gettysburg address? What was the Battle of Gettysburg about?
On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivers what will become one of
the most famous speeches in American history, at the dedication of the military
cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Using just 272 words, Lincoln articulated
the meaning of the Civil War for a public that had grown weary of the conflict.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincolns-gettysburg-address
12. Make a brief summary about his life and achievements.
-Abraham Lincoln was born in rural Kentucky in 1809, to parents of low social
standing and little education. During his childhood and early youth, the family
would move several times, first to Indiana and later to Illinois. Lincoln's mother,
Nancy Hanks, died when Lincoln was still a boy, and the next year his father,
Thomas remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston, who helped raise the young Lincoln.
- Lincoln got his start in life after a pair of flatboat journeys to New Orleans. Soon
afterward, he moved to New Salem, Illinois and set up as a store clerk there. When
the Black Hawk War broke out in 1832, he became the captain of his volunteer
company, serving for three months but seeing no active duty.
http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/lincoln/summary.html
13. Name some interesting curious facts about Lincoln.
1. He was the only president to have a patent: Lincoln invented a device to free
steamboats that ran aground.
2. He practiced law without a degree. Lincoln had about 18 months of formal
schooling.
3. He wanted women to have the vote in 1836. The future president was a
suffragette before it became fashionable.
4. Lincoln kept his important documents inside his hat.

- http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/02/50-shades-of-abraham-lincoln-2/
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)