The ups and downs Lincoln experienced.

1,1February 809 12, Lincoln was born in a poor family in Harding County, Kentucky. Parents are descendants of British immigrants. They make a living by farming and hunting. When he was a child, Lincoln helped his family move firewood, carry water and do farm work.

Because of his poor family, Lincoln only attended primary school for four months. In order to study, he borrowed books everywhere, often trading coolies for books and newspapers and periodicals for reading. I can't afford a notebook to practice writing, so I write on the flat wall. In this way, I gradually accumulated a lot of knowledge including poetry, law and biography.

Before the age of 3.25, Lincoln had no fixed job, in order to support his family. He worked as a ferryman, plantation worker, shop assistant and stonemason on the Ohio River. As an adult, he became a local land surveyor because he was proficient in measurement and calculation, and was often invited by people to solve land boundary disputes. After hard work, Lincoln has always been a young man who loves reading and often stays up late to study.

4. 1836, Lincoln became a lawyer through self-study, and then opened a law firm in Springfield. Before long, Lincoln became the Whig leader of the state legislature. After several unsuccessful elections, in 1846, 37-year-old Lincoln was elected as a member of the US House of Representatives.

5. 1850, the power of American slave owners increased greatly, and Lincoln was forced to give up his status as a congressman and continue to be a lawyer. 1856, Lincoln quit the Whig Party because of his strong opposition to the expansion of slavery, joined the newly established anti-slavery peace party, and soon became the main leader of the party.

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1. After the American Civil War broke out, Lincoln signed the Homestead Act and issued a decree to liberate slaves, which laid the foundation for the North to win the Civil War.

During the American Civil War, Lincoln resolutely opposed national division. He abolished slavery in rebel states, defeated the separatist forces in the south, and safeguarded the equal rights of all people in the United States and its territory regardless of race.

In order to develop agriculture, Lincoln government took concrete measures immediately after the policy adjustment. The key he grasped was science and technology. On the one hand, he vigorously promoted mechanized farm tools in agriculture, so at the end of the civil war, there were hundreds of thousands of harvesters and lawn mowers in the whole Federation. On the other hand, a large number of chemical fertilizers can not only improve the superior conditions for crop growth, but also improve production efficiency and liberate farmers from complicated labor, thus becoming an important source of military resources.

3. 1862, the Lincoln administration signed the Pacific Railway Act, which became the artery across the North American continent. This has greatly expanded the domestic market and attracted more and more agricultural population to join the world trade. Secondly, inland river shipping has also developed rapidly, especially the shipping on the Erie Canal and the Five Great Lakes has reached an unprecedented busy scene.

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