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Sunset Ridge Lincoln Collaborative

These are questions asked on our voicethread

2009

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Question 1

Why is Abe on the $5 bill? Why is Abe on the penny? When was that voted in?

Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, has appeared on the one cent piece or the penny since 1909.

Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, has appeared on the five dollar bill since 1928, replacing the portraits of President Garfield, which ran in 1882, President Grant which ran from 1886 to 1896 and President Benjamin Harrison which ran in 1902.

http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312172/numis.html

Question 2

Who killed Abe? Who helped in the conspiracy? When did he die and where?

Gideon Welles served Lincoln as Secretary of the Navy. On the night of April 14, he was awakened with the news that Lincoln had been shot. Together with Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, he rushed to Ford's Theater. They found the area packed with an excited crowd and learned that Lincoln had been taken to a house across the street. Clamoring up the stairs, Welles asked a doctor he recognized about Lincoln's condition. The physician replied that the President might live another three hours. We pick up his story as he enters the room where Lincoln lay:

"The President had been carried across the street from the theater to the house of a Mr. Peterson. We entered by ascending a flight of steps above the basement and passing through a long hall to the rear, where the President lay extended on a bed, breathing heavily. Several surgeons were present, at least six, I should think more. Among them I was glad to observe Doctor Hall, who, however, soon left. I inquired of Doctor Hall, as I entered, the true condition of the President. He replied the President was dead to all intents, although he might live three hours or perhaps longer. John W. Booth shot him on April 14 at a play. He died April 15.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lincoln.htm">

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lincoln.htm

Question 3

What was the age of Abe at the time of the election and death? Other important timeline events in his life.

Lincoln was 52 when he was first elected president.

Lincoln was 56 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_old_was_lincoln_when_he_was_first_elected_president

Question 4

Who were the witnesses of the assassination?

The theater Abraham Lincoln was shot in was the Ford’s Theater. The play that he was seeing was “My American Cousin.” His wife named Marry Lincoln accompanied him. His friend named Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée Clara Harris accompanied him too.

Information from the assassination of

Abraham Lincoln by Kay Melchisedech Olson.

Question 5

Gettysburg Address, where, who was it for, when, why was the speech given. Major points, where is the original document stored?

It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

The document is held in the national archives.

Question 6

What were Abe’s physical attributes, what do historians think he had wrong with him?

Question 7

How many kids did he have and names did any die while he was in office. Does he have any living relatives today, if not, when did the last descendant die?

Question 8

What towns and states did he live and facts about the log cabin?

Question 9

When did he get married, to whom did he marry, how many years married before he was president? When and where did she die?

MARY TODD LINCOLN

born.1818 -- died.1882. She was his wife before he became president

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first_ladies/marylincoln/

Question 10

How tall was Lincoln and facts concerning the top hat.

Question 11

Why was Abe killed? How old was he?

Abe was killed because the man that killed him loathed his idea of civilization. He was 56 when he died.

Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of all the Union's armies, suspended the exchange of prisoners-of-war in March 1864.[1] This decision cut off a badly needed source of reinforcement for the outnumbered, manpower-starved South. John Wilkes Booth's initial plot was to kidnap Lincoln and take him south, to hold him hostage and force his government to resume its earlier policy of exchanging prisoners.[2] Booth had organized a circle of conspirators to help him in attempting this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_assassination">

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_assassination

Abe was shot in Ford’s Theater in Washington DC in one of the boxes. He was seeing the play "My American Cousin."

Question 12

Where was Abe shot? What play was he attending? Who else was in the box while he was shot?

President Abraham Lincoln was watching a live play, not a movie, in Ford's Theater when he was shot. The name of the play was "Our American Cousin."

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_movie_was_Abraham_Lincoln_watching_when_he_was_shot">

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_movie_was_Abraham_Lincoln_watching_when_he_was_shot

The theater Abraham Lincoln was shot in was the Ford’s Theater. The play that he was seeing was “Our American Cousin.” His wife named Marry Lincoln accompanied him. His friend named Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée Clara Harris accompanied him too.

Information from the assassination of

Abraham Lincoln by Kay Melchisedech Olson.

Question 13

What political parties did he belong to, what party did he represent while in office and did that matter in the assassination?

Question 14

Did he children go into politics, what did Abe do as President? Because of his death, what did he not accomplish?

Question 15

Why did he become lawyer? What cases did he try?

Question 16

What was his educational background? Where were his teachers?

Question 17

What other famous speeches did he write other than the Gettysburg Address and why?

Question 18

What was Abe’s legacy and what was he noted for?

Question 19

What has his specific injury, what was the actual cause of death and where was he pronounced dead?

Question 20

Who was Stephen Douglas and why was he important to Lincoln?

Question 21

What was John Wilkes Booth’s background?

Booth was born in 1838, on a farm near Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. In 1859, Booth happened to be preparing for a theatrical engagement in Richmond, Virginia, a few weeks before the scheduled execution of the famous abolitionist John Brown. Upon hearing of the verdict, John Wilkes Booth headed to Charles Town, bought a Richmond Gray militia uniform from state officers, and stood guard along the gallows as John Brown was hanged.

By 1864, the tide of the war had shifted in the North's favor. John Wilkes Booth began devising a plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln from his summer residence at The Soldiers' Home outside of Washington. Booth began to devote more and more of his energies and finance to his plot to kidnap Lincoln after his reelection in early November, 1864.

http://www.abfition.com/abraham-lincoln/john-wilkse-booth.htm

Question 22

How long was he in office of President?

A: In office

March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865

Vice President Hannibal Hamlin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Q: What collage did he go to?

A: Abraham Lincoln didn't go to college. He educated himself by reading!

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_Abraham_Lincoln_go_to_college

Question 23

Whwn did Abraham Lincoln die?