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Birth Day
Abraham Lincoln Was born -
Lincoln's First Move
Lincoln and his family move to Indiana, where he spends most of his childhood. He learns to harness the wild. He also begins making his first journeys down the Mississippi River. -
Lincoln Enlists
The Black Hawk War begins. Lincoln enlists in the Illinois Militia to help. He never sees combat, but he was elected captain of his company. For the rest of the war he falls in and out of service and rank. -
Lincoln Is Elected
Lincoln is elected to his first political office. He serves in the Illinois Legislature for two years. he then begins to study law. -
Lincoln Is Admitted to the Bar
Lincoln begins to practice law. He does not have a degree, or any formal training, having been educated for only six months, and studying on his own after that. -
Lincoln Marries
Lincoln met Mary Todd, a young girl from Kentucky. They were married in November of 1842 when Lincoln turned 33 years old. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln had four sons: Robert, Edward, William, and Thomas, however Edward died at the age of four. -
Lincoln Is Elected to Congress
Lincoln is elected to Congress. He runs as a Whig. It would be his first term in a federal office, serving for Illinois -
House Divided Speech
A speech made by Abraham Lincoln to the Illinois Republican convention in 1858. He said that conflict over slavery would not stop until a crisis was reached and passed. In a biblical phrase Lincoln used, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” -
Elected President
It was a difficult time to be president. Many Southern states who did not agree with Lincoln about slavery seceded, or declared that they were not a part of the United States. After secession, the Civil War began. -
Gettysburg Adress
President Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of the ceremony that dedicated the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That speech has become known as the Gettysburg Address. Her said that the ground was holy. -
Lincoln Assassinated
Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next morning.
