OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN 



Outline 



I. Early Life 



(1) Birth and parentage 



(2) The family mode of life 



(3) Lack of formal education 



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II. Becoming? \Vell 



Candidacy for legislature of Illinois 

 In Black Hawk War 

 In Illinois house of representatives 

 As a lawyer 

 In the national House 

 The Lincoln-Douglas debates 

 (7) Candidate for Presidency 

 (a) Election of 1860 



1. Candidates ^. 



2. Issues 



3. Result 



III. His Administrations 



(1) Outbreak of War of Secession 



(a) Fall of Fort Sumter 



(b) First call for volunteers 



(2) Effect on country of Battle of Bull 



Run 



(3) Foreign entanglements 

 (a) The Trent affair 



(4) Emancipation Proclamation 



(a) A war measure only 



(b) Applied to states in actual rebel- 



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(5) Disturbing domestic conditions 



(a) The Copperheads 



(b) Suspension of habeas corpus 



(c) Draft riots 



(d) National Banking Act 



(e) Desperate need in South 



(6) The turning of the tide 



(a) Gettysburg and Vicksburg 

 1. Gettysburg oration 



(7) Election of 1864 



(a) Candidates 



(b) Issues 



(c) Result 



1. The great second inaugural ad- 

 dress 



(8) The surrender of Lee and close of the 



war 



(9) Assassination of the President 



IV. Character 



( 1 ) Claims to greatness 



( 2 ) Increasing fame 



Questions 



Why is Lincoln accounted with justice one of the greatest men who ever lived? 



How do the boyhood and youth of Lincoln compare with those of the man who 

 became Vice-President with him? With those of Garfield? 



What did Lincoln's earliest home look like? What did that in which he lived 

 when he was nine years old? 



Who brought into his life the first really civilizing, refining influences? 



Describe his appearance when he was seventeen years old. 



What was his attitude toward education, and when was it expressed? 



What military experience did he have? 



During his young manhood, what was his attitude toward slavery? 



If you had had a law case in Lincoln's day, why might you have wanted to en- 

 trust it to him? 



Why did Lincoln make the latter part of his trip to Washington hurriedly and 

 in secret? 



Under what circumstances did Lincoln frankly admit that the South was wrong? 



Why did he not issue the Emancipation Proclamation as soon as he had made up 

 his mind that it should be done? 



Who were the "Copperheads," and what part did they play in history? 



What was the lowest point of the Federal fortunes? What marked the turning 

 of the tide? 



What does sic semper tyrannic mean, and when was it used? 



