Abraham Lincoln

1 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
His family moved to Indiana when he was seven and he grew up on the edge of the frontier. He
had very little formal education, but read voraciously when not working on his father’s farm.
 2 Reforms

Lincoln was instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery
unconstitutional. Lincoln also presided over the passage of important domestic legislation,
including the first of the Homestead Acts, the Morrill Land-Grant Act.
Lincol’s politicial career began early , and he severed in the state legislature and in the U.S
House of Representatives . Lincoln was a gifted speaker.
 2 The Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the
nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons
held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.“
2 Memory