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In New Salem, Lincoln tried various occupations and served briefly in the Black Hawk War (1832). This military interlude was uneventful except for the fact that he was elected captain of his volunteer company, a distinction that gave him "much satisfaction...
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Two years later he was elected to the lower house for the first of four successive terms (until 1841) as a Whig. His membership in the Whig Party was natural. Lincoln's father was a Whig, and the party's ambitious program of national economic development was the perfect solution to the problems Lincoln had seen in his rural, hardscrabble Indiana past...
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Abraham Lincoln All throughout his childhood, Lincoln had to struggle to make a living and learn as well. His mother died when he was only ten years old. He lived as a farmer, working largely what would be considered "minimum wage" jobs today...	2 / 447
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, February 12, 1809. His parents were Tom and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. When he was seven, he and his family moved to southern Indiana...	8 / 2000
Abraham Lincoln and won the bloodiest war in our history. Lincoln also passed through congress the most monumental piece of legislation for social change in our history...	2 / 439
Abraham Lincoln From the start of the Civil War, Lincoln clarified that the goal of the war was not "`to put down slavery, but to put the flag back,'" and he refused to declare the war as a war over slavery (Brodie 155 as qtd...	7 / 1864
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln believed that if he could prevent the expansion of slavery into the federal territories and prevail upon state legislatures to accept gradual, compensated emancipation, he could shrink slavery, making it uneconomical and place it back on the road to extinction...	2 / 401
Abraham Lincoln difficult problems of his day. Issues such as slavery, negro social and political rights, and saving the Union in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence...	4 / 1116
Abraham Lincoln Early Life Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Hardin (now Larue) County, Ky. Indians had killed his grandfather, Lincoln wrote, "when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest" in 1786; this tragedy left his father, Thomas Lincoln, "a wandering laboring boy" who "grew up, literally without education...	8 / 2140