What Is Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. That is the only thing most Americans know about him. This essay will address his early childhood, law career, entering politics, presidential years, civil war, and finally his assassination. Abraham Lincoln never liked to talk about his early life. He was a poor country boy from Hodgenville, Kentucky (Freedman 14). Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a one window log cabin. When he was just a toddler they moved to another cabin on Knob creek. There he went to a small school with his sister Sarah, she was two years older. His mother Nancy, a thin woman, could not read or wright,
At age eighteen his sister Sarah dies from giving birth to her first child. That spring he was hired by James gentry to help his son Allen on a 1,200 mile flatboat voyage down the Mississippi river to New Orleans. New Orleans was the first real city they had seen. This is where he first saw the slave sales. Abraham and his friend sold all their goods and the flatboat, and returned by steamboat. On this trip he earned twenty-four dollars. Abraham thought about making his way to Illinois. The farming was good, partly due to the black soil. In 1830 the Lincoln’s sold their Indiana farm. Abraham had just turned twenty-one. He and his father built a new cabin and started over. Abraham only stayed with his family the first winter. He was offered another cargo job by Denton Offutt. Abraham agreed to make the trip with his step brother, John Johnston, and his cousin, John Hanks. When he returned from this trip he went home and said farewell to his dad and step
This time he got second, but he was one of four men that got accepted into the Illinois House of Representatives from Sogamon County. He was twenty-eight years old when he moved to Springfield. There he met Joshua Speed. Abraham moved in with him atop a general store. He then met a man named Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas was a Whig, which favored a strong government. They became immediate rivals. Lincoln won a third and fourth term in the house he was now thirty years old. By this time Lincoln had found a girl and fell in love. Her name was Mary Ann Todd. She was the daughter of a wealthy Kentucky banker. In the winter of 1840 they were engaged. On November 4, 1842, they got married. Their first kid, a boy, was named Robert Todd. They then had three more kids, Eddie in 1846, Willie in 1850, and Thomas or Tad, in 1853. In 1846 Lincoln was elected to the U.S House of Representatives. He took his seat in congress in 1847. He only earned three dollars when in session, so he still needed a job. John Todd Stuart wanted Abe to go into law. So he did. Abe studied for three years before passing the exam. He accepted a job position as junior partner in Stuart’s Springfield Law Office. He only stayed for one, two year term, then went back to full time law office. When the Dred Scott case came around he put together an argument for it. Abe spoke in Springfield, and talked about the “plain unmistakable language” of the Declaration of