Abraham Lincoln by: Ashley

I am writing about Abraham Lincoln because he was a brave leader. Lincoln was born in 1809. He and his family were pioneers who lived on farms in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. When he was young he didn’t go to school he learned how to read. In his speeches Lincoln said that slavery went against Americans tradition of freedom. When Lincoln was president there was a Civil War because the states were fighting about slaves. Abraham Lincoln died when the war ended. A man called John Wilkes Booth shot him. Abraham was an important president because he stopped slavery.