Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

In honor of Lincoln’s 216th birthday, February 12, 1809, here are some ... s assassination in April 1865. He is the only president to hold a patent Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky ... He died on April 15, 1865, shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Wednesday marks ...

Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) 2. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” —Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) 3. “If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our ...