Be sure to check out the following activities with a friend or family member:. You're right! Thanks for sharing, Gana!! George Washington's birthday is coming up, too! Hi, AguiluRY24! Why don't you take a Wonder Journey and see what you can discover about Lincoln's brother? Let us know what you find out! Thanks for sharing what you learned from this Wonder, MarqueJA24! You're right - when Lincoln was 7 years old, he shot a wild turkey, but he felt bad about it and never went hunting again.
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Thanks for your patience. Drag a word to its definition. You have answered 0 of 3 questions correctly and your score is:. Want to add a little wonder to your website? Help spread the wonder of families learning together. We sent you SMS, for complete subscription please reply. As a young adult, Lincoln worked as a flatboat navigator, storekeeper, soldier, surveyor, and postmaster. At age 25 he was elected to the local government in Springfield, Illinois. Once there, he taught himself law, opened a law practice, and earned the nickname "Honest Abe.
He served one term in the U. House of Representatives but lost two U. Senate races. But the debates he had about the enslavement of people with his senatorial opponent, Stephen Douglas, helped him win the presidential nomination two years later. Lincoln opposed the spread of slavery in the United States. In the four-way presidential race of , Lincoln got more votes than any other candidate.
When Lincoln first took office in , the United States was not truly united. Now Northerners and Southerners were close to war. When he became president, Lincoln allowed the enslavement of people to continue in southern states but he outlawed its spread to other existing states and states that might later join the Union.
Eventually, 11 southern states formed the Confederate States of America to oppose the 23 northern states that remained in the Union. During the early years, the South was winning the war.
Through speeches such as the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln encouraged Northerners to keep fighting. In , at the age of nineteen, he accompanied a produce-laden flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana—his first visit to a large city--and then walked back home.
Two years later, trying to avoid health and finance troubles, Lincoln's father moved the family moved to Illinois. After moving away from home, Lincoln co-owned a general store for several years before selling his stake and enlisting as a militia captain defending Illinois in the Black Hawk War of Black Hawk, a Sauk chief, believed he had been swindled by a recent land deal and sought to resettle his old holdings.
Lincoln did not see direct combat during the short conflict, but the sight of corpse-strewn battlefields at Stillman's Run and Kellogg's Grove deeply affected him. As a captain, he developed a reputation for pragmatism and integrity. Once, faced with a rail fence during practice maneuvers and forgetting the parade-ground instructions to direct his men over it, he simply ordered them to fall out and reassemble on the other side a minute later. Another time, he stopped his men before they executed a wandering Native American as a spy.
Stepping in front of their raised muskets, Lincoln is said to have challenged his men to combat for the terrified native's life. His men stood down. After the war, he studied law and campaigned for a seat on the Illinois State Legislature. Although not elected in his first attempt, Lincoln persevered and won the position in , serving as a Whig.
Only one lived to adulthood. The deep melancholy that pervaded the Lincoln family, with occasional detours into outright madness, is in some ways sourced in their close relationship with death. Lincoln, a self-described "prairie lawyer," focused on his all-embracing law practice in the early s after one term in Congress from to He joined the new Republican party—and the ongoing argument over sectionalism—in A series of heated debates in with Stephen A.
Douglas , the sponsor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act , over slavery and its place in the United States forged Lincoln into a prominent figure in national politics.
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