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Abraham Lincoln

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1. Born in poverty, he moved with his family to Indiana and Illinois. Largely self-taught, he becamebecomebecomesI don't know a lawyer

2. He served in the state legislature (1834-41), moving toatinI don't know Springfield,during his tenure, and in the U.S House of Representatives (1847-49).

3. A supporter of theaanI don't know new Republican Party in its antislavery stand

4. in 1858 he ran for U.S. Senate overagainstagainI don't know the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas

5. though he was unsuccessful, theirstheretheirI don't know eloquent debates brought Lincoln to national attention.

6. In 1860 he won the Republican presidential nomination and was elected secretarysenatorpresidentI don't know .

7. Though Lincoln had expressed a moderate view on slavery whileforduringI don't know the campaign,

8. opposing only its extension into new states, the South seccededseceededsecededI don't know and the Civil War began in 1861.

9. The war dominated Lincolns'administrationthe administration of LinconLincoln's administrationI don't know ;

10. To unite the North and influence foreign opinion, he thinksissuedissuesI don't know the landmark Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

11. His extraordinary Gettysburg Address laterleatherlatterI don't know that year further ennobled the war's purpose;

12. it contains the most celebrated language neverhaviereverI don't know spoken by an American politician.

13. . He was re-elected in 1864, and in his eloquent Second Inaugural Address he called sinceforaboutI don't know moderation in reconstructing the South and in building a harmonious Union.

14. Five days after the war's end, he won'twasisI don't know shot by the fanatic John Wilkes Booth.

15. His reputation amongwithaboveI don't know U.S. presidents remains unsurpassed.