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biography of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Assassinated as the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln had been the first Republican elected to the Presidency. Before his presidency, he was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.
As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,[1][2] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. His tenure in office was occupied primarily with the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln's death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.
Lincoln closely supervised the victorious war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Historians have concluded that he handled the factions of the Republican Party well, bringing leaders of each faction into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate. Lincoln successfully defused the Trent Affair, a war scare with the Britain in 1861. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave states at the start of the war. Additionally, he managed his own reelection in the 1864 presidential election.
Opponents of the war (also known as "Copperheads") criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue. Conversely, the Radical Republicans, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Even with these road blocks, Lincoln successfully rallied public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches; his Gettysburg Address is but one example of this. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation. His assassination in 1865 was the first presidential assassination in U.S. history and as a result Lincoln is seen as a martyr for the ideal of national unity and human rights.[citation needed] Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents, being the only one to have been ranked in the top three on all of the lists.
Source: history book student histories

Questions

1. How much percentage did he win with?

A: 40 %

2. How many kids did he have?

A: 4 kids

3. How many times was he reelected?

A: 2 times

4. What was Lincoln father's name?

A: Thomas

5. Where was Lincoln's log cabin?

A: Hodgenville , KY

6. Was he the ......president?

A: 16th

7. In what year was he murdered?

A: 1865

8. After being a president he was a/n............ ?

A: Lawyer

Biography of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

*Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin . He was an Irish writer, author of some of the most brilliant essays and comedies in English. At 17 he won an entrance scholarship to Trinity college, Dublin, were he gained a scholarship to Magdalene, college oxford. He left oxford for London in 1878 and quickly became a popular topic of conversation consening the strage clothes he wore and the odd poses he adopted as an aesthete.

Questions

1. What did he inspire to write a Picture of Dorian Gray?

2. Do you think that his life was difficult? Why?

3. Why did he leave Oxford?

4. Name one of his brilliant essays.

5. Do you think that one of his books will be interesting? Why?

Oscar Wilde was born on october 16, 1854 and he die november 30, 1990 in Paris, Irish wt poet, and dramatist whose reputation rest on his comic masterpieces. lady windermer´s fan 1892 and the importance of being earnest 1895 he was a spokesman for the late 19th century aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art´s sake, and he was the object of celebrated civil imprisonment 1895-1897. In 1884 Wilde married Constance Lloyd. daughter of a prominent Irish barruster, two children Cyril and Vyuyan were born in 1885.

Dublin, 1854 - Paris, 1900) British writer. Son of surgeon-William Wills Wilde and the writer Joana Elgee, Oscar Wilde was a quiet and uneventful childhood. He studied at the Royal School of Portorosa Euniskillen, at Trinity College Dublin and later at Magdalen College, Oxford, which remained in the center between 1874 and 1878 and which received the Newdigate Prize for poetry, which enjoyed great prestige at the time. Oscar Wilde combined his studies with travel (in 1877 he visited Italy and Greece), while published in several newspapers and magazines his first poems, which were collected in 1881 in Poems. The following year he undertook a trip to the United States, where offered a series of lectures on his theory about the philosophy of aesthetics, which defended the idea of "art for art 'and which provided the foundation for what later was called dandismo.

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