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Title: Abraham Lincoln


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