By: Kaleb Herman

 Having a passion for politics & honesty  Commitment to a united America  Writing the Gettysburg address.  Fight against slavery

 He has a passion for politics which showed despite his loss of the election for General Assembly on August 6 th in 1832, he studied law in 1834 and in 1860 became the 16 th president and was the first Republican.  On August 1 st 1836, Lincoln is re-elected to the Illinois General Assembly and by now is a leader of the Whig Party and on September 9 th, Lincoln receives his license to practice Law.

 Honest Abe acquired this nick name from when he was in managing the country store. One time when he was counting the money he collected that day, he had taken more money from a customer than the customer needed to pay. So he walked a long distance to make up the incompleteness.

When he went to New Orleans in 1828, he saw a slave auction and he despised it. Since he despised the slave auction, he thought slavery should be banned in America. So after the Civil War, the thirteenth Amendment was created and the amendment says slavery is illegal in the United States of America. Not only that, their was no longer Union and Confederacy states and the country became a united nation again.

 Over 7500 soldiers died at the battle of Gettysburg  Abrahams speech was acknowledging the soldiers that had died. He also reminded the 15,000 people listening about being a united nation that the fore fathers founded on liberty and equality

Abraham encouraged the families remaining to continue with war and reinforce the nation's commitment to democracy government of the people, by the people, for the people

 1863 emancipation proclamation freed slaves in territories during the Civil War  1865 advocated for the 13 th amendment banning slavery

 At the age of 9 Lincoln experienced a near death incident when he got hit in the head by a horses hoof.

 Also at the age of 9, Abraham experienced the death of his mother by milk sickness.  Milk sickness is caused from cows milk that has been poisoned from the cow ingesting white snake root. A plant found in Indiana that commonly grows on roadsides, in damp areas, or on the shaded north side of edges.

 Robert Todd Lincoln was born in *only to lived to adulthood  Edward Baker Lincoln (Eddie) in (tuberculosis) . William "Willie" Lincoln (typhoid fever)  Thomas "Tad" Lincoln ( heart failure)

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