Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky in a one room cabin with dirt floors and no glass windows. He went from the Wilderness to the White House capturing the American Dream on the way. He was a self-made man and was self-educated with less than a year of formal schooling. Lincoln was named after his Grandfather Abraham after the move to Kentucky in 1782. Lincoln was the son of a dirt farmer and his early life was poor and simple. He lived in the cabin he was born in until he was about two years old and then they moved ten miles away to a more fertile farm on Knob Creek. Lincoln did not learn to read or write until after his family moved to Indiana in 1817 when Lincoln was seven years old. Lincoln’s chores were take corn
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He received the second highest of votes out of 13 candidates. During this time he met and fell in love with Ann Rutledge but before they could marry she became sick with brain fever and died on August 25, 1835. Lincoln then became very depressed and his friends were afraid he would commit suicide but he dove into the books and studied law so he could become a lawyer. In September 1836 he passed the bar to practice law in Illinois. He was reelected in 1838 and received the most votes of the seven winning candidates. Lincoln married Mary Todd and they had four sons. Their second son Edward died in Februrary-1850 with tuberculous. After his son’s death he started having more to do with his other three …show more content…
On 9/22/1862 the Final Emancipation Proclamation passed and it stated that on 1/1/1863 all slaves were to be freed. They had one hundred days to free all the slaves and they were set free forever. The one hundred days passed and none of the slaves had been set free. The volunteering for war had almost stopped and more troops were needs. So Lincoln signed a draft on 3/3/1863. It’s main purpose was to increase man power. One million men volunteered during the time the draft was in effect. Draft itself produced 170,000 soldiers. Lincoln then allowed blacks to be drafted because of all the rioting the slaves being set free had caused. On 1/31/1865 the House finally passed the Thirteenth
He received the second highest of votes out of 13 candidates. During this time he met and fell in love with Ann Rutledge but before they could marry she became sick with brain fever and died on August 25, 1835. Lincoln then became very depressed and his friends were afraid he would commit suicide but he dove into the books and studied law so he could become a lawyer. In September 1836 he passed the bar to practice law in Illinois. He was reelected in 1838 and received the most votes of the seven winning candidates. Lincoln married Mary Todd and they had four sons. Their second son Edward died in Februrary-1850 with tuberculous. After his son’s death he started having more to do with his other three …show more content…
On 9/22/1862 the Final Emancipation Proclamation passed and it stated that on 1/1/1863 all slaves were to be freed. They had one hundred days to free all the slaves and they were set free forever. The one hundred days passed and none of the slaves had been set free. The volunteering for war had almost stopped and more troops were needs. So Lincoln signed a draft on 3/3/1863. It’s main purpose was to increase man power. One million men volunteered during the time the draft was in effect. Draft itself produced 170,000 soldiers. Lincoln then allowed blacks to be drafted because of all the rioting the slaves being set free had caused. On 1/31/1865 the House finally passed the Thirteenth