Facts and Opinions

This is to be used as a review for your Lincoln study. Each page has important information. Each step has a timer to give you a chance to answer the question before you are shown answers.

What was Lincoln’s childhood like?

He was

• born February 12, 1809.

• the son of Nancy & Thomas.

•born in Hodgeville, KY.

• only in school a very little time.

• raised in a log cabin.

He was

uneducated.

Name some of the personal characteristics of President Lincoln.

He was

• sloppy.

• honest.

• secretive.

He was

• unorganized.

• tall.

• thin.

• well-read.

What do you know about Mary Todd Lincoln?

She was

•defiant.

•supportive.

•by the President’s side when he died.

She was

•witty.

•stylish.

•vivacious.

•opinionated

Tell one fact and one opinion about President Lincoln’s children.

•Their names were Robert, Edward, William and Tad.

•They were the first children to live in the white house.

•Edward died in February 1850

•Willie died in February 1862.

•They were spoiled by their parents.

•President Lincoln gave them everything that they wanted.

What do you know about Lincoln the lawyer?

He was

• a partner of William Herndon.

• very slow at speaking.

• practiced law for 25 years.

He was

• shut-mouthed.

• a slow thinker.

• a very good lawyer.

Why do people say that Lincoln was a great communicator?

He was

• the writer of the Emancipation Proclamation.

• a famous debater.

• the writer and presenter of the Gettysburg Address.

He was

• the best speech writer of all times.

• the best speaker.

• the winner of the Douglas- Lincoln debates.

What have you learned about President Lincoln?

He was

• the greatest President.

• suffering with Marfan Syndrome.

• uneducated because he didn’t attend school much.

He was

•from a very poor family.

• elected in 1860.

• challenged by slavery.

• President during the Civil War.

•re-elected in 1864.

• helped politically when Sherman took Atlanta.

• assassinated April, 1865.

Can you tell about the death of President Lincoln?

He was

• shot in the head.

• killed while watching a play.

• warned that someone was going to try to kill him.

• He was going to die anyway from Marfan.

• There were others involved in his assassination plan.

• He was assassinated because the south was losing the war.

Bibliography• Slide 1: "Indiana Polka" (Band). By Edmund Jaeger, arranged by J. Schatzman

From Peter's Sax-Horn Journal (Cincinnati: W.C. Peters & Sons [1859]). The piece was also published in 1856 by the same firm in a piano arrangement.

• Slide 2: Creel Cabin, HODGENVILLE, Larue County, KY Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site CALL NUMBERHABS, KY,62-HODGV,2- CREATED/PUBLISHED Documentation compiled after.

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ky/ky0000/ky0094/photos/071385pv.jpg• Slide 3: PRESIDENT LINCOLN, WRITING THE PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM.

January 1st, 1863. http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/app/3a/3a00000/3a05801v.jpg • Slide 4: Abraham Lincoln's last reception / Hohenstein, Anton, c.1823- artist.

CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia : John Smith, 1865. SUMMARY Abraham Lincoln & Mary Todd Lincoln greeting Union generals, Cabinet members, & others at a reception

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g02000/3g02400/3g02438v.jpg• Slide 5: A photograph of the President and Thomas (Tad) made by Mathew B. Brady

on February 9, 1864. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a14000/3a14200/3a14279v.jpg• Slide 6: Lincoln as a lawyer Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington,

D.C.), photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1864 January 8]http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/cwp/4a40000/4a40800/4a40821u.tif

Bibliography• Slide 7: Lincoln Douglas debate : Du Page County Centennial, August 27th,

West Chicago / Kreger. CREATED/PUBLISHED Ill[inois] : Federal Art Proj., WPA,

[between 1936 and 1939] SUMMARY Poster for a reenactment of the Lincoln-

Douglas debate to be held at the DuPage County Centennial, showing bust portraits

of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3f00000/3f05000/3f05200/3f05233v.jpg• Slide 8 America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets President Lincoln's

favorite poem. A. W. Auner, ... Phila. [n. d.]

http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/amss/cw1/cw104670/001a.tif• Slide 9: The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre,

Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York : Currier & Ives,

1865.

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05800/3a05805v.jpg• Reward poster for Lincoln’s killer

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a52000/3a52000/3a52083v.jpg• Slide 10: "Old Memories" (Vocal). Words and music by Stephen Collins

Foster. First edition, New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1853.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmconcert.html#0008