Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation signer
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
He led the Union through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in Confederate states.
Lincoln is remembered for preserving the nation and for the Gettysburg Address.
His name evokes honesty and moral leadership: He's no Abraham Lincoln.
Executive order freeing Confederate slaves
- Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- slaveryOwnership of people
Frederick Douglass · contraband · Juneteenth · freedmen · liberty · Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · abolitionist
Named political entity
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- GettysburgPennsylvania battle site
- Antietam1862 Maryland engagement
Fort Sumter · Appomattox · Robert E. Lee · Ulysses S. Grant · commander-in-chief · war powers · generals · draft
Presidential nickname suggesting integrity
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- self-educatedLearned independently, no schooling
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
humor · melancholy · compassion · perseverance · wisdom · eloquence · frontier · log cabin
Thing preserving remembrance
- Mount RushmoreCarved presidential memorial
- pennyOne-cent piece
- five-dollar billUS currency note
- SpringfieldCommon American placename
tomb · statesman · Great Emancipator · martyr · icon · mythology · biographies
Right-leaning American political organization
- White HouseOfficial presidential residence
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- Gettysburg Address1863 battlefield dedication speech
- CongressU.S. lawmaking body
cabinet · commander-in-chief · federal union · Homestead Act · transcontinental railroad · greenbacks · wartime powers
- Ford's TheatreHistoric Washington playhouse
- derringerCompact concealed firearm
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- Andrew JohnsonPost-Civil War president
national mourning · martyr · deathbed · lying in state · manhunt · War Department
Emancipation Proclamation
Executive order freeing Confederate slaves
- Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- freedomAbsence of constraint
slavery · Frederick Douglass · contraband · Juneteenth · freedmen · liberty · Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · abolitionist · manumission
Union
Named political entity
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- GettysburgPennsylvania battle site
Antietam · Fort Sumter · Appomattox · Robert E. Lee · Ulysses S. Grant · commander-in-chief · war powers · generals · draft · blockade
Honest Abe
Presidential nickname suggesting integrity
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- self-educatedLearned independently, no schooling
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
storyteller · humor · melancholy · compassion · perseverance · wisdom · eloquence · frontier · log cabin · self-made
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
- Mount RushmoreCarved presidential memorial
- pennyOne-cent piece
- five-dollar billUS currency note
Springfield · tomb · statesman · Great Emancipator · martyr · icon · mythology · biographies
Republican Party
Right-leaning American political organization
- White HouseOfficial presidential residence
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- Gettysburg Address1863 battlefield dedication speech
Congress · cabinet · commander-in-chief · federal union · Homestead Act · transcontinental railroad · greenbacks · wartime powers
John Wilkes Booth
- Ford's TheatreHistoric Washington playhouse
- derringerCompact concealed firearm
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
Andrew Johnson · national mourning · martyr · deathbed · lying in state · manhunt · War Department
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation
- historical figureshistorical figures, leaders, Albert Einstein, Joan of Arc, Alexander the Great
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, US Constitution
- World LeadersChurchill, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Gorbachev, Thatcher
- 1800sVictorian era, Napoleon, Gilded Age, Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution
- 1860sAmerican Civil War, Appomattox, Confederacy, Confederate States, Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham LincolnJefferson Davis
Confederacy's only president
Robert E. Lee · Confederate States of America · John C. Calhoun · Stonewall Jackson · John Wilkes Booth
Abraham LincolnAdolf Hitler
tyrant · oppressor · dictator · Joseph Stalin · despot
Abraham LincolnJames Buchanan
Andrew Johnson · Franklin Pierce · Warren G. Harding · Richard Nixon