1. Abraham Lincoln & The Union
Mr. Starcher
March 25, 2013

2. Abraham Lincoln Biography
NAME: Abraham Lincoln
BIRTH DATE: February 12, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH: Hodgenville, Kentucky
OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, U.S. President, U.S. Representative
NICKNAMEs: Honest Abe & The Great Emancipator
PLACE OF DEATH: Washington, D.C.
DEATH DATE: April 15, 1865

3. Best Known For:
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.

4. Emancipation Proclamation

5. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction began during the war as early as 1863 in areas firmly under Union military control. Abraham Lincoln favored a policy of quick reunification with a minimum of retribution.
CLASS DISCUSSION: What would you have done with the confederate government officials?
1) Let them back into society no questions asked?
2) Give them stiff penalties? (i.e. What?)
3) Lifetime ban from voting?

6. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, by well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
Lincoln was taken from the theater to a Petersen House across the street and laid in a coma for nine hours before dying the next morning.
 His body lay in state at the Capitol before a funeral train took him back to his final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.

7. Who was John Wilkes Booth?

8. John Wilkes Booth NAME: John Wilkes Booth BIRTH DATE: May 10, 1838
OCCUPATION: Theater Actor, Assassin
DEATH DATE: April 26, 1865

9. North v. South

10. North and South: Different Cultures, Same Country

11. Differences Between Northern & Southern States
Northern States
Southern States
Small Farmsteads
Industry
Natural Resources
Large Cities (New York City held 800,000)
One Quarter of Northern Population lives in Urban Societies
Large Plantations
Profitable agriculture
Tobacco & Cotton
80% of labor force worked on farms
2/3 of Southerners owned no slaves
Slaves part of culture

12. Differences Between Northern & Southern States
Northern States
Southern States
Between 1800–1860 agricultural development and labor drop from 70% to 40%.
European immigrants boost factory workforce.
7 of 8 settled in North
South population was 4 million blacks and 5.5 million whites
No large cities except New Orleans, others located on rivers or coasts for shipping agriculture to European or Northern destinations

13. Differences Between Northern & Southern States
Northern States
Southern States
Easier transportation (2/3 of railroads were in the Northern States)
Economic upswing
Whig/Republican party
More careers in business, medicine, & education
Attend School
Only 1/10 of Southerners lived in urban areas
Transportation was difficult except by water
Economy began to stall
Agriculture & Military careers
Less schooling
Democratic Party

14. Election of 1860
 In the general election, Lincoln faced his friend and rival, Stephan Douglas, this time besting him in a four-way race that included John C. Breckinridge of the Northern Democrats and John Bell of the Constitution Party. Lincoln received not quite 40 percent of the popular vote, but carried 180 of 303 Electoral votes.

15. Electoral College Votes

16. Firing on Fort Sumter
 Before his inauguration in March, 1861, seven Southern states had seceded from the Union and by April the U.S. military installation Fort Sumter, was under siege in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. In the early morning hours of April 12, 1861, the guns stationed to protect the harbor blazed toward the fort signaling the start of America’s costliest and most deadly conflict.

17. Firing on Fort Sumter

18. Succession Of States From The Union
South Carolina December 20, 1860
Mississippi January 9, 1861
Florida January 10, 1861
Alabama January 11, 1861
Georgia January 19, 1861
Louisiana January 26, 1861
Texas February 1, 1861
Virginia April 17, 1861
Arkansas May 6, 1861
North Carolina May 20, 1861
Tennessee June 8, 1861

19. Works Cited