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Abraham Lincoln

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  • Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks

  • Abraham Lincoln was born

    Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky

  • Thomas Lincoln moved to north Indiana

    Abraham was seven at the time

  • Abraham's mother died

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Lincoln's sister died

    He was 18 at the time.

  • Thomas sold the Indiana farm and moved to central Illinois

  • Lincoln got a job at an old store

  • The store Lincoln was working at failed and he went on to run for Illinois State Legislature

  • Lincoln devoted himself to his studies and was a juinor partner for a law office

  • Lincoln meets Mary Todd

  • Lincoln is engaged

  • Lincoln breaks off the engagement

  • Abraham Lincoln is married

  • Lincoln won his party's nomination

  • Lincoln's 1st son Eddie is born

  • Lincoln took his sear in Congress

  • Zachary Taylor is elected president

  • Lincoln's Congressional term ended

  • Lincoln's son Eddie died

  • Lincolns 2nd son Willie is born

  • Lincolns son Tad is born

  • Warefare had broken out in Kansas

  • Debate at Ottawa

  • Lincoln is elected President

  • Inauguartion Day

  • McDowell's attack

  • Lincoln's son Willie died

  • Northan Democrats launched a peace movement

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Emancipation Proclaimation

  • Lincoln is elected a second time

  • Lincoln dies

  • A funeral train set out on a sixteed-hundred mile journey to Illinois

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