Abraham Lincoln Thesis
Abraham Lincoln
Thesis: Abraham Lincoln really is a man that we know so little about how he came to be the president.
In the year of 1809 on February 12th, a baby boy was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. This boy was Abraham Lincoln after his grandfather who passed away. He was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky as where his siblings Sarah and Thomas (who died as an infant). “When first my father settled here it was than the frontier line, The Panther’s screams filled the night with fear and the bears prayed on the swine” (Pettinger, video, Abraham). His grandfather brought his family here from Virginia in 1780’s. His grandfather passed away when he was murdered by Indians while tending his crops. At the age of eight Lincoln’s
Thesis: Abraham Lincoln really is a man that we know so little about how he came to be the president.
In the year of 1809 on February 12th, a baby boy was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. This boy was Abraham Lincoln after his grandfather who passed away. He was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky as where his siblings Sarah and Thomas (who died as an infant). “When first my father settled here it was than the frontier line, The Panther’s screams filled the night with fear and the bears prayed on the swine” (Pettinger, video, Abraham). His grandfather brought his family here from Virginia in 1780’s. His grandfather passed away when he was murdered by Indians while tending his crops. At the age of eight Lincoln’s