Some questions/answers concerning Abraham Lincoln

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2. Answer
He was the 16th President of the United
States and was born in a log cabin in
Kentucky on February 12, 1809 and killed
on April 15, 1865.
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3. QUESTION:
Was his father rich and educated or poor
and uneducated?
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4. Answer
His father was a poor farmer and carpenter and is
considered to have been almost illiterate. He lost
farms three times after boundary disputes.
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5. QUESTION
For how many years did Abraham Lincoln go to
school and what kind of book did the family have
at home?
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6. Answer
Lincoln had less than a year of schooling.
I‘ve, however, read that his stepmother
urged him to read and that she was very close to him
The family owned a Bible and spent many hours
reading it..
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7. Despite the fact that he didn‘t
go to school he became a........
Lincoln said that he had been
helped by many people.
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8. Answer
He became a lawyer.
He would walk 17 miles to the county
courthouse in order watch the lawyers
work.
He sat in the back of the courtroom
and watched them as they shook their
fists and became red in the face!
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9. Question
When he was 21 he moved to Illionois. Do you know
what he worked as then?
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10. Answer
He spent a year laboring on a farm. It is said that he
and his fellow laborer split 3‘000 rails in that year
1830.
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11. Question
He worked in many jobs and he would always try to
work on a skill which would help him when he
became a lawyer.
Can you think of some impotant moral attitudes he
wanted to stick to?
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12. Answer
I‘ve read that he tried to be honest and fair when he
worked as a shopkeeper.
When he worked as a postmaster he tried to get along
with people.
When he was a surveyor, a person who measured
land, he tried to be accurate with the measurements.
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13. Question
His wish to become a lawyer remained and he studied
without getting any sleep. He borrowed books from
a .................. in the evening, read them during the
night, by the light of the fireplace, and brought them
back in the ...................
He passed the test in ........... and became a lawyer.
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14. Answer
- Neighbour
- Morning
- 1836
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15. Question
During this period he was elected to the Illionois
legislature by the WHIG party.
This name was chosen to echo the American Whigs
of 1776, who fought for independence, and
because"Whig" was then a widely recognized label of
choice for people who identified as opposing tyranny.
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What‘s the Wig party called today?
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16. Answer
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
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17. Question
Do you know who the educated Mary Todd, a
member of a well off Kentucky family was?
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18. Answer
She was Abraham Lincoln‘s wife. Despite the fact that she
suffered from terrible headaches and that she was also
mentally unstable, she supported her husband throughout
his presidency and was also with him when he was shot at
the Ford‘s theater in 1865. She never ricovered from that
shock.
Before she married Abraham Lincoln, Mary was courted by
Lincoln‘s his long-time political opponent Stephen
Douglas.
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20. Answer
It started in 1861
And it lasted 4 years
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21. Question
What was for Lincoln the most important thing
in this war?
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22. Answer
The President wanted the United States to
remain one nation. It was in danger of being
divided into two nations; the North and the
South.
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23. QUESTION?
What did he say in his inaugural address in 1860 as far
as slavery was concerned?
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24. Answer
„I have no purpose, directy or indirectly, to
interfere with the institution of slavery in the
states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful
right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.“
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25. Question
What was the most important success of
his Emancipation Proclamation from 1863
and the 13th Amendment ?
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26. Answer
He was able to achieve two goals.
1. Freeing the slaves and abolishing slavery in the
Southern states for good.
2. The country was able to remain a united
nation.
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27. Question
By whom was Abraham
Lincoln assassinated
on April 14, 1865?
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28. Answer
He was killed by John Wilkes Booth, an actor with
extrimist views concerning politics and slavery.