A Nation's Hero

Abraham Lincoln

“My Whole Soul is in it”

President Lincoln

Achievements

• He saved the Union• Freed the Slaves• Died for his Country

The Lincoln Family

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Lincoln vs. DouglasThe War of Words

• Lincoln wanted to end slavery. It was the problem.

• Douglas wanted to put an end to the controversy of slavery not slavery itself.

Famous Quotes

• “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."

• "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds…”

Emancipation Proclamation

My Whole Soul is in it

Lincoln said this about the Proclamation, “I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper. If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”

The Death of a Hero

• Tragedy struck the country on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, when President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater. John Wilkes Booth crept into the box at about 10 p.m. and aimed the gun between Lincoln’s left ear and spine. He fired the gun but no one up in the box heard the fatal shot that killed the president.