Short Notes: Abe Lincoln, Slavery, Civil Rights Movement in America, Harlem, The Euphrates, The Congo, The Nile & Pyramid

Short Notes: Abe Lincoln, Slavery, Civil Rights Movement in America, Harlem, The Euphrates, The Congo, The Nile & Pyramid

Short Notes: Abe Lincoln, Slavery, Civil Rights Movement in America, Harlem, The American Dream, The Euphrates, The Congo, The Mississippi, The Nile, Blues, Pyramid (toc) Abe Lincoln Abe Lincoln's full name is Abraham Lincoln. He was born in February 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, US. Born in a Kentucky log cabin, he moved to Indiana in 1816 and to Illinois in 1830. He worked as a storekeeper, a rail-splitter, a postmaster, and a surveyor for sometime, and then enlisted as a volunteer in the Black Hawk War in 1832, and was captain of his company. He taught himself law, and having passed the bar examination, began practicing in Springfield, Illinois, in 1836. As a successful circuit-riding lawyer from 1837, he was noted for his shrewdness, commonsense, and honesty (earning the nickname "Honest Abe"). From 1834 to 1840 he served in the Illinois state legislature, and in 1847 he was elected as a Whig to the US House of Representatives. In 1856 he joined the Republican Party…