First off there wasn 't a lot of schools in Spencer County Indiana, where Lincoln lived at the time. There was not any standards for educations except being able to "readin" , "writin", and "cipherin" (6). ‘Cipherin’ means being able to write in code. If a student was able to learn Latin and be able to understand it fluently then the community looked upon him as if he was a wizard (6). While in grade school Abraham did not have the drive of ambition to make him want to be successful in school. In the autobiography written by Abraham himself, he says that he was "raised for farm work" (6). Which in some way was true because Abraham worked on his families ' farm until he was the twenty-one years old …show more content…
He was inaugurated into the White House on March 1861 (67). By the time Lincoln was inaugurated as the six-tenth president of the United States, several of the southern states had removed themselves from the Union (67). Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation, was an Executive order that issued the slaves that was controlled by the Confederacy, their freedom (67). Abraham Lincoln was sometimes referred as an example of a ready-made ruler (72). He was looked upon as a man who was fair-minded and who also was filled with raw material of wisdom