Abraham Lincoln (Biography)

                           Abraham Lincoln’s childhood

Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky (Hardin County is now LaRue County) on February 12, 1809. Then, Lincoln moved to Indiana at just seven years of age (1816). Two years later his mom Nancy Lincoln died because of milk sickness (1818) however he was very close to his stepmother. Abraham’s father was named Thomas Lincoln who was a farmer and a carpenter. Abraham Lincoln had only one sibling who was named Sarah Grigsby. Sarah Grigsby then died in her twenties at the exact same time when she was giving birth to her baby.

When Abraham Lincoln was born, his father Thomas Lincoln owned two Six-hundred acre farms, a couple of town lots, livestock and horses. Thomas Lincoln was in fact one of the richest men in the County. But, unfortunately in 1816 Thomas had a major downfall in which he lost all his land to court cases of faulty property title meaning that they did not have a legal document saying that the property belonged to them. For that was the reason in why their family moved to a free piece of land in Perry County, Indiana. In that land was where they made a new start.

When Lincoln was a pre-teen he majorly disliked the hard work in the frontier life. Some people both in his family and neighborhood considered Abraham Lincoln being lazy. Then as he grew into being a teen he had 100% full responsibility for all chores that were expected from teen males in a household at the time. Lincoln also became a very skilled axman in his work building rail fences. Lincoln was known as a brawn (has solid and strong muscles) person that’s willing to take bold risks especially when he was challenged to a wrestling match with one of the most competitive wrestlers in his neighborhood.  

                         Abraham Lincoln’s education

Abraham Lincoln had one year of school education however, throughout his life he has been taught by many different people. One of Abraham Lincoln’s passions as a child was reading books. They say that Abraham Lincoln would read and learn from any (and that means any) book that he can get his hands on. Abraham’s passion for reading began when his stepmother forced him to read books every day. After a while Lincoln began getting use to reading and at the same time, began enjoying books as well. Abraham Lincoln was majorly a self-educated man. Lincoln loved reading so much that even at night he would read with the light from the fire place. Sometimes Lincoln would even stop doing chores to read. Every time his father saw him reading instead of doing chores, he would scold Lincoln.  

Abraham Lincoln went to school at a really young age so he just basically learned the ABC’s and also how to read and write. At that time the schools he went to were called ABC schools or “Blab school”. The reason why Abraham is education was stopped was because he had no time to go to school; most of his time was dedicated to helping his father with the chores. One way that Lincoln practiced to write when he wasn’t in school was by writing on hickory bark. When the hickory got full of writing Lincoln would just take a drawknife and shave off all of the writing and then start writing again. After all, Abraham Lincoln was a keen reader. When he was older, his top favorite thing to read was the newspaper. But he also read other types of books and several of the books were about Shakespeare.

However Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother had another role that she also played in his education. His stepmother remembered poems (that her mother use to tell her in her childhood) even dough she did not know how to read. She also gave Lincoln three books to read.

As Abraham Lincoln became a teenager he was intrigued with the laws of the land and country so he started focusing and studying around that topic. Then, after he moved he became a lawyer. A way in which Abe remembered things when he was an adult was by keeping things in his hat. That hat he had was called “stovepipe hat”.

   Important event that impacted who Abraham Lincoln was

The most important event in Abraham Lincoln’s life was when he became the 16th president in November 6 of 1860. The reason why he being the president changed his life was because during his presidency he finally became successful and after so many chances that he had to become successful; every one of those chances were some how blown away. that  His vice president during his presidency was Andrew Johnson. Sadly his presidency only lasted five years until he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The assassination happened around 10:15 in the late evening. The gun the Booth used to kill Lincoln was the .40 caliber Philadelphia derringer. Lincoln was shot behind his left ear. However, Lincoln was guarded by a major named Rathbone who went to grab booth before he through himself of the stand. But, Booth was also carrying a dagger in which he used to stab Rathbone with it. Then Rathbone quickly got up and Booth then stabbed him again. His killer John Wilkes Booth then hopped of the stand where Abraham Lincoln was sitting and broke his left leg. The crowd hadn’t noticed the gunshot because at the moment that Booth shot, the funniest line of the play made everyone in the theater laugh as loud as possible. Booth went across the stage saying, “Sic Semper Tyrannis” making his self look as if he were part of the play. Rathbone then screamed, “Stop him” the in which the crowd quickly reacted to catch Booth. Booth then limped towards the door and struck a man named Boroughs in the forehead with his dagger and then escaped on his horse also in which he kicked Boroughs in the face too.

          However Lincoln did not die instantly. Lincoln was taken to a boarding house across the street where he died the next day (April 15, 1865) at 7:22 a.m. Twelve days later Booth was surrounded by soldiers in the farm he had been hiding in with his partner Herold. Herold surrendered when he noticed all the soldiers surrounding the farm. Booth screamed, “You’ll never take me alive” and at that moment soldiers started shooting at the barn Booth was in. A soldier quietly came through behind the barn and shot Booth just one inch below the spot where Lincoln was shot. Booth died on the ground he was in 2 hours later. His 4 other partners were executed. Abraham Lincoln’s death is one of the biggest moments in history even today one and a half centuries in the future.

    How Abraham Lincoln is connected to our history (what he did)

Abraham Lincoln led our country through the civil war and still preserved the Union; meaning that he kept the United States together (even dough Abraham Lincoln supported the Union and not the Confederacy) instead of having it divided into two different countries; going through a Civil war while keeping your country together must have been very hard to do so this is a sign of true presidency and great leadership. Lincoln also bought Alaska from Russia which would have been different today if it weren’t for Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln also signed the Land grant Colleges act in 1862 which provided government grants for Universities at every state. Lincoln also presided over the formation of national banks which benefited us with a strong financial system all over the country. And, even when Abraham Lincoln was occupied fighting in the civil war, he tried his best to help out Juarez in Mexico by sending him 30,000 muskets to his army. This shows that a president’s leadership is not only caring for your country, but is also made up of caring for other countries too.

But one of the most important things that Lincoln is known for doing is freeing the slaves by creating the emancipation proclamation in the year of 1863. This was majorly important because slavery was a catastrophic event in which no human should ever go through. Slavery has broken apart millions of families and affected over fifteen million Africans. In account to slavery, Lincoln approved the thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. The thirteenth amendment was the amendment that abolished slavery (and involuntary servitude) in America; meaning that slavery would not be used anymore and that slavery would not be used in the United States anytime in the future as well. To the amendment, laws were made stating that whoever enslaved or had someone to serve them at force would be held with charges of slavery against them. Slaves were not freed immediately; they were freed after the thirteenth amendment was made. However the thirteenth amendment is final enactment was made after President Lincoln’s death. Lincoln has truly left many great precedents for future presidents to take into consideration.           

About Cabbage

Cabbage is a healthy vegetable that helps your digestion and increases your antibodies. It can also speed up the curing of ulcer. It also reduces risk of eye cataract, colon, and stomach and lung cancer. It reduces the risk of heart problems. It gives you plenty of vitamin A, B, C and E. Also includes minerals and fibers. It’s also, really good for people suffering from anemia. Eating it raw will give lots of vitamin C and E. But if you cook it, it loses a lot of its nutritional values. Cabbage has a lot of magnesium, calcium, sulfur and iron.

            People eat cabbage because they know it’s healthy for them and it has a little taste in it. They also eat it because; cabbage is to show prosperity for the new years in America. Also it’s to bring money to the New Year. There are different theories on why people eat cabbage which is either to bring good luck, bring money or for anything else.  

Christopher Columbus discovering of America (New World)

Christopher Columbus was going to go to Asia sailing west. Also that Christopher Columbus is Italian. But he did not get there right away. To go he had to gave money which is a certain amount he didn’t have. He begged all king a kings for about 6 years until the king and queen of Spain funded him with the money. Other kings and queens thought that the world was flat. They thought that if u passes the horizon that you would fall out of earth. But the king and queen of Spain thought differently. They thought that if it really worked that they would be richer for making that journey possible. So that’s what they exactly did. They funded Christopher Columbus is group with a sufficient amount of money so they can make their journey. Christopher wanted to sail to the west to Asia to try to invent something new. Also because they would have to travel by land to get to Asia through the Silk Road. They would often be attacked by robbers who would steal their silk. Plus it also took them a very long time to get the silk and spices because they would have to go over mountains and go around little rivers and they would travel by horse (only way to travel in those days).  They started sailing in August of 1492. The crew had the advantage of Christopher Columbus because he learned to sail at the age 14. He went on the journey with 87 crew members on board. They had gone to “Asia” with 3 ships. The names of the three ships were Santa Maria, La Nina and Pinta. Christopher was in the ship Santa Maria. As they went along they bumped in to land which Christopher thought was Asia. But it was really the West Indies (Caribbean). The first island he ran into in the Caribbean was the Bahamas. He got their within 29 days (a month) of sailing. Once he was there he found gold and took it to take it back to the Europeans. He also kidnapped some Native Americans to bring them back to Europe. He returns to Spain in the year 1943 with the gold, Native Americans and exotic plants. Once the king and queen of Spain saw what he had discovered did, they continued to fund him. When Christopher was back everybody thought he was a hero. So after that the exploration of the 3g’s started existing. The three G’s where, God, Gold, glory. For the God part the people of Europe wanted to teach the Native Americans the way of the God. They wanted to force them to be catholic.                                                             

Modern day slavery

While we think that there is no slavery in places anymore there actually is. This type of slavery takes place day to day and done from day and night time. This occurs in Pakistan. Pakistani officials have not reported any signs and/or people that have been holding people as slaves. They were treated like animals. Anyone who stopped or, didn’t want to work anymore got beaten. They get paid a really poor amount of money. They make up to twelve dollars a day (maybe less).

            People/Pakistanis have been working at down to the age of four months old. It all started when the Pakistan people got three district courts to declare that it is illegal the depts that the landlords were using to compel the workers into servitude. Now since it’s illegal to have someone be their servant/slave the landlords got mad so then they forced the Pakistanis to work for them automatically.

A third of the fractions of slaves are children. The ones who are four months old or younger are landless poor children. One of the have been killed too. So far throughout the whole slavery, only one person has died. That slave died purposely by one of the slave owners. He killed the slave in order to scare all the other slaves (and threaten them) so they would not escape, attempt to escape and, to get them working faster.

            They also killed that hostage so the other people would drop the cases and forget about it and return to work. The United States of America made a law that if a country is ranked on the trafficking list for three years will automatically go to tier three which could make the country face sanctions. When a place sanctions a country (place, etc.) it means that everything that the states government does has to be showed to the country that is sanctioning it. It also means that if we sanction that country, we dictate all the ethical choices they do.       

People who are not slaves are sometimes homeless and poor. Refugees live in really crowded rooms. For example; one person said that he had to move his family of ten inside a tiny two room house. When he moved in there was already twelve people inside of their including; little children running around the house bear foot. Their living conditions and food they eat are not enough to survive such a long time.

            Their home had mud walls and the toilet they used to use the bathroom was just a hole in the floor that serves as a makeshift toilet. Also the children had signs on their face that were brown looking spots on their face. Both of those are evidence of malnutrition. Now since more homeless Pakistanis are living slightly better, worse or the same as this; there is a big rate in which people are getting into Pakistani hospitals at fast rates.

Also where all the pakistanian refugees are moving to, there are signs of terrorists throughout the location. They have reported it but the officials are regardless of what happens. This makes it an even more of a dangerous place where a pakistanian refugee camp carrying a lot of refugees inside of them. Both ways, a refugee or a slave, are bad conditions for anybody to live in. Refugee`s because of all the malnutrition and slave because of, how they treat the slaves and feed them.

            People who landowners have to force to do work end up in private prisons. Pakistan made an emancipation law in nineteen-ninety-two. They promised to free all slaves but many, many people are still slaves till this very same day. It mostly exists now because, the landowners do it secretly so nobody would know about it. They said the police is using a blind eye on the issue otherwise, if they don’t see it, they don’t believe it.   

So far Obama`s ambassador said that Pakistan should keep the promise they did in the emancipation in nineteen-ninety-two. Also, that they are looking for ways to help their government stop people from holding people as slaves. The United States of America is doing a great effort in part of stopping slavery in Pakistan<

            Courts order for the cops there was to free more than a dozen hostages. Obama`s human rights secretary said that there are at least 3 landowners with 170 farm workers each working as slaves. “Slavery is not only found in Asia. But it is found throughout communities in the south of Asia” said Luis Cdebaca. We are all humans. We deserve the respect that we need for nobody is greater than anybody else in the world, and nothing less.