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President Lincoln

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__Facts about Lincoln__ -He was born on February 12th 1809, and died April 15th 1865 at the age of fifty six.

-His party was Republican and he was president for four years from 1861-1865, when he was assassinated.

-Lincoln was fond of pets, and owned horses, cats, dogs and a turkey.

-In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd and the couple had four sons, Robert, Edward, William and Thomas. Lincoln shared special relationships with Ann Rutledge, Mary Owens before he got engaged to Mary Todd.

-16th President of the United States.

-Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is one of the most quoted political speeches in history. It marked the end of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg and the American Civil War. The speech was made on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, [|Pennsylvania].

__What the Gettysburg Address said and why it was so important at the time?__

The Gettysburg Address is important because it brought our country back together as one nation.The Address seemed to speak to a people divided by a civil war - brother against brother, father against son. The worse type of war. His few words returned to the war weary people a belief in what they were fighting for and that it was worth the struggle. The simple elequence of the words seemed to address a pain and sooth some of it. Lincoln reassured the American people that although this was a catastrophic war, somehow the democracy would endure.

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-__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln__

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__Write a reflection about Lincoln - What did you learn about him? What did you learn that you did not know about him? Why is he considered one of the best Presidents__?

Abraham Lincoln known to be the best president. Lincoln was born on February 12th 1809, and died April 15th 1865 at the age of fifty six. Lincoln was one of those presidents that really cared about his people. For example a day before he gave the speech at the Gettysburg Adress, a lady came up to him crying pleeding to bring her son back home because she needed help. lincoln granted her pleed but it was too late for the lady, she watched her son die in a hopistal bed. The lady went back to Lincoln and pleeded him to bring back her other two boys and so Lincoln wrote a letter to the military to let her boys go. At the Gettysburg Adress, was when linocln made his remark, he made the people believe in him and in the war that they were goin through was worth the fighting. Lincoln assumed with this war and speech, the people or the nation will become one instead of being devided. Lincolns speech was so long that some people even missed parts of the begining. Lincoln brought hope to the nation and pride.