Question

Para1 - When Abe was just nine years old, his mother died and his siter 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 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 shop-keeper 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.
Para 2-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 bothof
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).

1.What do you know about Abraham Lincoln’s early life?
2.What did Lincoln do before 1836?
3.What did Lincoln say about the Civil War?
4.How was Lincoln assassinated?
5.Choose the word from the passage which means ‘murdered’ [ para

Answer 1

Answer:

1.He still wanted to be a lawyer. In

1836 he passed the test and became a lawyer

2.he was a shop-keeper.

3. My paramount object in this struggle is to

save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.”

4.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).

5.died.