Abraham Lincoln for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 ActivitiesProviding a fresh perspective on one of the most beloved presidents of all time, this illuminating activity book tells the rich story of Abraham Lincoln’s life and details the events of his era. Highlighting Lincoln’s warm, generous spirit and impressive intellect, the guide teaches children about his fascinating life story, his struggles at the onset of the Civil War, and his relevance in today’s world. Activities include delivering a speech, holding a debate, drawing political cartoons, and making a stovepipe hat or miniature Mississippi River flatboat. Lively sidebars, abundant photographs and illustrations, and fun projects help to kick the dust off old Honest Abe. Also included are selections from some of Lincoln’s most famous speeches and documents, as well as a resource section of Web sites to explore and sites to visit, making this a comprehensive Lincoln biography for young readers. |
Contents
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Chapter 4 The Rail Splitter for President | 49 |
Chapter 5 A Task Before Me | 67 |
Chapter 6 We Must Think Anew and Act Anew | 83 |
Chapter 7 Increased Devotion | 103 |
Chapter 8 With Malice Toward None | 119 |
Abraham Lincoln Sites to Visit | 139 |
Web Sites to Explore | 142 |
Bibliography | 144 |
Index | 146 |
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Abraham Lincoln for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities Janis Herbert No preview available - 2007 |
Abraham Lincoln for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities Janis Herbert No preview available - 2007 |
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Page 77 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 77 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Page 61 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us. nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 60 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 71 - My Friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 58 - Why can it not exist divided into free and slave States ? Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and the great men of that day, made this Government divided into free States and slave States, and left each State perfectly free to do as it pleased on the subject of slavery. Why can it not exist on the same principles on which our fathers made it...
Page 49 - Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for some men to enslave others is a "sacred right of self-government.
Page 34 - This thing of living in Springfield is rather a dull business after all — at least it is so to me. I am quite as lonesome here as [I] ever was anywhere in my life I have been spoken to by but one woman since I've been here, and should not have been by her if she could have avoided it I've never been to church yet, and probably shall not be soon.