Abraham Lincoln...

Abraham Lincoln was one president of the United States of America...

He was born on February 12, 1809, his parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. When his was a child, his family wa so poor, he had one brother, but he died in his childhood. His father refused to own slaves as a religious Baptist, although Kentucky was then a state where slavery was allowed. When Abraham Lincoln was 7 years old, he and their family moved to Indiana, so that he passed other part of his life there, but again, when he was 22 years old, they moved to Illinois, and there he work as a salesman.

Abraham Lincoln learned math, to read and to write only when he was 22 years old. Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States, because the Northern States had stopped slavery and the Republican Party was against slavery extension. The Southern States did not support Lincoln, so seven States formed the Confederate States of America, which led to the American Civil War. In his whole period as President, he was forced to rebuild the Union with military force and many bloody battles. Although he was not a supporter of slavery, he was more interested in reuniting America, than in freeing the slaves. On August 22, 1862 he sent a letter to a newspaper to the New York. Lincoln was reelected president in 1864. Lincoln saw the South was going to lose. He proposed laws to make the nation become one again quickly.

Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, because at the end of his life and history he was married (shot), and killed by John Wilkes Booth.