Abraham Lincoln Research Paper

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Sixteenth President of the United States

I chose Abraham Lincoln as a subject matter because he is the only American President I like. Of course, the rest of the world loves him very much as he is one of those big men who profoundly influenced their eras. He is not only an American President but also the president of common people. That is why his photograph was put on ‘'a penny''. In my paper there is a chronological order of important events from Abraham Lincoln's life. My paper starts with his family's settlement to Hingham, Massachusetts, continues with the birth of Abraham Lincoln and with simple events from his early childhood. After a brief explanation about Abraham's childhood and his
He briefly attended school in1816 and the same year in December, his family crossed the Ohio River and settled in the backwoods of Indiana. Abraham was seven years old when they moved to Southern Indiana. He had gone to school briefly in Kentucky and did so again in Indiana. Young Abraham was kicked in the head by a horse in 1818 and his family thought for a while that he was dead. Then, within the same year his mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln died of milk sickness on the 5th of October. It is a disease obtained from drinking the milk of cows which had grazed on poisonous white snakeroot. Abraham's father, Thomas, remarried the next year, and Abraham loved his new stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. He briefly attended school in 1820.Then he gave a break of two years. He attended school for a few months in 1822.As he had to work on the farm he attended school in the fall and winter. As Abraham grew up, he loved to read and preferred learning to working in the fields. This led to a difficult relationship with his father who was just the opposite. As he could not afford to buy books for himself, he borrowed books from neighbours and read whenever possible. He made great efforts to attain knowledge while working on the farm. His married sister died while giving birth on January 20, 1828.He became a candidate for Illinois General Assembly in March, 1832. The Black Hawk War broke out the same year. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War. Consequently, he spent eight years in the Illinois legislature and rode the circuit of the courts for many years. In those years, his law partner said of him: ''His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest''. At the age of 24, Abraham was elected to the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Party on the 4th of August, 1834.Then he began to study law. He was re-elected to the Illinois General