Optional task. Find some information about Abraham Lincoln and share it with your classmates.
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Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
Lincoln was born in a backwoods cabin 3 miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville, Kentucky, and was taken to a farm in the neighbouring valley of Knob Creek when he was two years old. His earliest memories were of this home and, in particular, of a flash flood that once washed away the corn and pumpkin seeds he had helped his father plant.
The unhappiest period of his boyhood followed the death of his mother in the autumn of 1818. As a ragged nine−year−old, he saw her buried in the forest, then faced a winter without the warmth of a mother’s love.
Having just reached the age of 21, he was about to begin life on his own. Six feet four inches tall, he was rawboned and lanky but muscular and physically powerful.
Already having taught himself grammar and mathematics, he began to study law books. In 1836, having passed the bar examination, he began to practice law. At first Lincoln was a partner of John T. Stuart, then of Stephen T. Logan, and finally, from 1844, of William H. Herndon. Lincoln and Herndon kept few records of their law business, and they split the cash between them whenever either of them was paid.
Lincoln had to work hard. To keep himself busy, he found it necessary not only to practice in the capital but also to follow the court. By the time he began to be prominent in national politics, about 20 years after launching his legal career, Lincoln had made himself one of the most distinguished and successful lawyers in Illinois.
Lincoln was fond of the Bible and knew it well. He also was fond of Shakespeare.
When Lincoln first entered politics, Andrew Jackson was president. In Lincoln’s view, Illinois and the West as a whole desperately needed such aid for economic development.
In one of his most famous speeches, he said: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” He predicted that the country eventually would become “all one thing, or all the other.” Again and again he insisted that the civil liberties of every U.S. citizen, white as well as Black, were at stake.
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