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Here’s a simple overview of Abraham Lincoln’s history:

Early Life
• Born: February 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Kentucky, USA.
• Grew up in poverty, had very little formal schooling but loved reading and self-education.
• Worked as a farmhand, rail-splitter, shopkeeper, and later studied law on his own.

Political Career
• Served in the Illinois state legislature and became a successful lawyer.
• Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1846.
• Gained national attention in the Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858) on the issue of slavery.
• Became the 16th President of the United States in 1861.

Presidency (1861–1865)
• Led the country during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
• Fought to preserve the Union and opposed the expansion of slavery.
• Issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
• Delivered famous speeches, including the Gettysburg Address (1863).
• Re-elected in 1864.

Death
• On April 14, 1865, just days after the Civil War ended, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
• He died the next morning, April 15, 1865.

Legacy
• Remembered as one of America’s greatest presidents.
• Nicknamed “Honest Abe” and “The Great Emancipator.”
• Known for leadership, moral vision, and dedication to equality and democracy.

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