Abraham Lincoln
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Wars, Battles, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination, American Civil War, Civil Wars, Coups
- Curriculum: African American History, American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
Article abstract: Lincoln is generally considered to have been the outstanding figure responsible for the preservation of the federal Union.
Early Life
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, on the Sinking Spring Place, a farm three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky. His mother was the former Nancy Hanks, and his father was Thomas Lincoln, both natives of Virginia whose parents had taken them into the Kentucky wilderness at an early age. Thomas Lincoln was a farmer and a carpenter. In the spring of 1811, they moved to the nearby Knob Creek...
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