A hero research presentation by Morgan.

1. MY HERO PROJECT

2. MY PROJECT IS ABOUT
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

3. INTRODUCTION
• A hero is a person that changed the world.
• Heroes can be brave and have courage.
• A hero is more than just a average person.
• A hero is someone you remember from what they did.
• A hero is someone who severed

4. HISTORY
• 1809-1865
• He was born in February 12
• He lived in lived
in Kentucky,
Indiana, and Larue County,
Ky.
• He was the 16th president
• He stopped slavery

5. HISTORY
• Abraham Lincoln never told
a lie. He was very honest.
People called him honest
Abe.

6. EARLY LIFE
• he grew up on newly broke pioneer farms of the
frontier. His mom, Nancy Hanks, died in 1818. Soon after his
mother died his dad, Thomas Lincoln, soon got married to
Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham had almost no formal
schooling—the scattered weeks of school attendance in
Kentucky. he taught
• himself, reading and rereading a small stock of books. He
was chosen captain of a volunteer company gathered for the
Black Hawk War (1832), but the company did not see battle.

7. ABRAHAM LINCOLN WHEN
HE WAS YOUNG

8. ABRAHAM'S SPEECH
• Accepting the nomination
(in a speech delivered at
Springfield on June 16 ),
Lincoln gave a ringing
declaration in support of
the Union: "A house
divided against itself cannot
stand."

9. WHAT MAKES ABRAHAM
LINCOLN A HERO
• Abraham Lincoln stopped slavery. He changed the world for
African Americans. Abraham was also the 16th president. He
was also very honest.

10. • ABRAHAM'S TIME LINE
January 20, 1828
• Lincoln's older sister
Sarah dies following
childbirth in southern
Indiana.
• January 21, 1862 President
Lincoln nominates Noah H.
Swayne of Ohio to theU.S.
Supreme Court.
• January 25, 1863President
Lincoln puts Major General
Joseph Hooker in command

11. THANK YOU