Title: Abraham Lincoln
1Abraham Lincoln
2Abraham Lincoln was an important man. He was the
16th president of the United States.
3He was born in Kentucky to Tom and Nancy Lincoln.
4He had one sister named Sarah.
5Abes mother loved to read and encouraged him to
enjoy reading.
6When Abe was little, his mother died of milk
fever.
7His dad remarried and Abe had a stepmother named
Sarah who was good and kind.
8When Abe was 8, he started to school. He walked
11/2 miles to school.
9Abe worked all of his life. His first paying job
was rowing a flatboat across the Ohio River.
10Abe read and read and read. He learned so much
that he was able to become a lawyer in
Springfield Illinois
11He was a lawyer until he ran for Congress and
won.
12When he was a man, he fell in love with a fun
loving woman named Mary Lincoln. They had three
boys.
13He later ran for president of the United States
and won that too.
14When he became president, all people were not
free. African Americans were called slaves.
15He didnt think that was fair and wrote a law
that made them free.
16This caused a great war in our country called the
Civil War.
17When this war ended, all Americans were free.
18Abraham Lincoln