Young Abe
What is the date of Abe's birth?
February 12, 1809
This object was borrowed from a farmer but was ruined by a rainstorm.
Top hat
Book
Matches
Lamp
Leather Jacket
What is a book?
Lincoln married this wealthy young woman from Kentucky in 1842.
Who was Mary Todd?
The age at which Abraham Lincoln became president.
What is fifty-two?
This is the name of the theater where Lincoln was shot.
What is Ford's Theater?
At the age of seven Abe's Father Thomas moved his family from Kentucky to this state to look for a better life.
Arkansas
Illinois
Indiana
Nebraska
What is Indiana?
Abe's first job.
Babysitter
Delivering papers
Chopping wood
Mowing lawns
What is chopping wood and splitting rails?
This second son of Abraham and Mary died before his 4th birthday.
Who was Edward?
This little girl named Grace Bedell suggested to Lincoln in a letter that he would look better with one of these on his face.
What is a beard?
After shooting this animal when Abe was almost eight, he vowed never to kill another animal but to have other men kill for him.
Cat
Dog
Deer
Turkey
Bear
What is a wild turkey?
Abe walked three miles to return this amount of money that a woman overpaid at a store where he worked.
Six Cents
Six Continentals
Six Pence
Six Dollars
Six Greenbacks
What is six cents?
Lincoln's son whom some believed was his favorite died at 12 years old.
Who was William Wallace Lincoln?
The war that broke out soon after he became president.
What is The Civil War?
At nine years of age, Abe lost an important person in his life to "milk sickness."
Father
Mother
Older Sister
Younger Brother
What is his mother, Nancy?
This was one of Abe's jobs that required him to measure land.
Appraiser
Property Developer
Surveyor
Realtor
What is surveying?
This son died at 18 years old and sent Mary Todd Lincoln into a decline, in which she never recovered.
Who was Thomas or "Tad" Lincoln?
With the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln ended slavery in the USA.
True
or
False
False
He only ended slavery in the rebellious states.
He allowed slavery to continue in Maryland and New Jersey.
Abe's favorite pastime.
Reading
Baseball
Smoking a pipe
What is reading?
This was Abe's first elected office.
Arkansas Legislature
Illinois Legislature
Indiana Legislature
Nebraska Legislature
What is the Illinois Legislature?
The only son that survived to maturity. He died at 82 in 1926, three years after he helped dedicate the Lincoln Memorial.
Who was Robert Lincoln?
Lincoln's aide John Hay, wrote of Mr. Lincoln: “He belonged to no Church. Yet he was the uncanonized saint of all the Churches. He never uttered a prayer in public. Yet prayers for him fastened our cause daily with golden chains around the feet of God.”
Was Lincoln a Christian?
He never declared himself to be a Christian