Abraham LincolnQuinton Fisher

APUSH5/22/13

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

Lincoln’s Bio

• Born in a one-room log cabin• Mother died when he was

only nine• His sister died during birth• Three out of four of his

children died• Humble origins to great

power

• Began the process of the Emancipation Proclamation

• Leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War

• Example of honesty, leadership, and character

• After the Battle of Antietam in Maryland, declared that all slaves in the Confederate states were free

• “Began as a fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom”

• The 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery in ALL of the United States.

• Ratified on Dec. 6, 1865

• Racism would not really end until the 1960s, after the Civil Rights Movement