Timetoast

Instructional TimeToast

By erinknowles
  • The Birth of Abraham Lincoln

    The Birth of Abraham Lincoln

    He was born in Harbin County Kentucky.
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    The Life of Abraham Lincoln

  • First Move

    First Move

    Abe and his mother and father moved to Perrin County Indiana.
  • Lincoln's Mother Dies

    Lincoln's Mother Dies

    Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks dies. His father remarries a woman named Sarah Bush Johnston. Lincoln was close to his stepmother.
  • Second Move Due to Milk

    Second Move Due to Milk

    Lincoln and father and stepmother move to Macon County Illinois in 1830 due to a milk sickness outbreak.
  • Political Career Begins

    Political Career Begins

    Lincoln ran for the General Assembly, but did not win.
  • Elected to State Legislature

    Elected to State Legislature

    He was considered to be part of the Whig Party.
  • Marriage to Mary Todd

    Marriage to Mary Todd

    Lincoln married Mary Tood who was the daughter of a wealthy slave owner form Kentucky.
  • U.S. House of Representatives

    U.S. House of Representatives

    Lincoln served one term in the House of Representatives.
  • Elected 16th President of The United States

    Elected 16th President of The United States

  • Confederate States of America Formed

    Confederate States of America Formed

    South Carolina took the lead on December 20 , 1860 ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,[101] and Texas had followed by forming their own country, the Confederates States of America.
  • President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

    President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

    "to form a more perfect union"
  • American Civil War

    American Civil War

    American Civil War Begins
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    Freeing slaves in Union Territories
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    Speech was given in victory of the Union in the American Civil War.