It is very important to be able to read, but it is of new use if you can read but you cannot understand what you read.
The more you read English, the better you will get at it. Once you practice more, it will get easier. If you read and there are words you do not understand, look up the meaning of it.
Carefully read the following piece and then answer the questions to the best of your ability.
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1807 in Kentucky to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln.
When Abe was just nine years old, his mother died and his sister Sarah took care of him until his father remarried. Lincoln had less than a year of schooling. The family owned a Bible and he spent many hours reading it. By the time he was 17, he knew he wanted to be a lawyer. When he was 21 years old he moved to Illinois and spent a year
laboring on a farm. When he was a shopkeeper he tried to be honest and fair. He still wanted to be a lawyer. In 1836 he passed the test and became a lawyer. It was during this time he was elected to the
Illinois legislature by the Whig party. He became good at debating and public speaking. Lincoln was Inaugurated president in March of 1861. Five weeks later the Civil War began.
Lincoln wanted the United States to remain one nation. Two years later,
President Lincoln wrote: “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.” He was able to realize both of his goals. In 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the Southern states, and the country was able to remain a united nation.
Eventually all the slaves in the United States became free. On April 14, 1865 President Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln were attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. While there he was assassinated and died nine hours later.
The events that occurred during the time that Abraham Lincoln was president included the attack on Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War (1861 -1863), the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), the Conscription Act (1863) and the Gettysburg Address (1863).
- Give the names of Abraham's parents.
- Did his mom raise him until he was an adult? Why do you say that?
- What year was he born?
- Explain the difference between getting married and remarried.
- Which book die Abraham read to help him to better his reading?
- It was important for him to be honest and fair. True or false?
- What is the meaning of the word 'inaugurated'?
- What is the meaning of the word 'emancipation'?
- What does it mean if someone is 'assassinated' and when did this happen to Abraham Lincoln?
- Find videos or your own reading material on the Civil War for extra information.