Query – Who Am I?

• Born in Kentucky
• Veteran of the Black Hawk Indian War of 1831
• Married
• Lost a son named William when he was 11 years old
• President

Possible Answers

a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Jefferson Davis
c) Both of the above
d) None of the above

• February 12, 1809 - Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks
• 1816 - Lincoln family moved to Gentryville, Indiana
• 1830 - Lincoln family moved to Illinois
• 1831 - Lincoln is on his own
• 1832 - Lincoln serves in Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War
• 1834 - Lincoln runs for Illinois legislature and wins
• 1836 - Abraham Lincoln is licensed to practice law
• 1837 - Lincoln moves to Springfield, Illinois
• November 4, 1842 - Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd
• 1856 - Lincoln helps organize Republican party in Illinois

• November 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected President
• March 27, 1861 - Lincoln appoints officials of Dakota Territory
• April 12, 1861 - Civil War begins
• May 20, 1862 - Lincoln signs the Homestead Act
• July 2, 1862 - Lincoln signs the Morrill Act
• December 6, 1862 - Lincoln commutes the death sentence of 263 Dakota (Sioux), convicted for their part in the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
• July 2, 1864 - Lincoln signs the Northern Pacific Railroad charter
• April 9, 1865 - Civil War ends
• April 14, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies of gun-shot wound.