Background and Accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln
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Background:
Abraham Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809 in a log cabin located near Hodgenville, Ky. Abraham lived there until the age of two when his family moved to a more productive farm. At this new location Abraham was able to see our country at work. He experienced all of the following: settlers, peddlers, circuit riding preachers, and rarely a group of slaves. This was most likely Abraham's first time seeing slavery. Where he grew up among the Baptists their attitude towards slavery was very hostile. Abraham like most frontier children did not get the best in education; however he and his sister, Sarah, occasionally attended classes in a log schoolhouse some two miles away from home. Abraham's father had trouble involving illegitimacy of land claims and lost part of one of his farms, and both his other farms became entangled in litigation. The Lincolns then decided to head to Indiana, where you could buy land directly from the government...