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Abraham Lincoln was born on a farm. His father was a poor farmer and the boy had to work much on their small farm. The young Abe spent less than a year at school. But he read a lot. “The things I want to know are in books,” he said.
One day Abraham bought a book about laws of England. He studied it every day,
and his interest in law grew. He became a lawyer. His life became interesting and useful. He knew how he could help people, he tried to use the law to defend them.
In 1846 Lincoln was elected to Congress. There he said that he was against slavery. He said that the black slaves of America must be free. He thought of a free country for all the people.
Lincoln became very popular. In 1860 he was elected President of the United States of America.
His ideas about freedom for the black slaves were good for the rich people of the industrial North. The planters of the South who exploited those slaves were against them. So a war between the North and the South began. It was won by the North.
In 1864 Abraham Lincoln was elected President again. But his enemies, who wanted to exploit the black slaves as before, could not let Lincoln continue his good work. A year later he was killed in a theater in Washington.
Abraham Lincoln’s traditions live in the struggle of all progressive people in the USA.
