Read the text and match the year and the event happened there

1809	Lincoln was elected President of the USA.
1830	The American Civil War between the Norm and the South began.
1836	The Civil War ended, Lincoln was shot.
1842	Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer.
1847	Abraham Lincoln got married.
1860	Abraham Lincoln was born.
1861	Abraham Lincoln went as a Congressman to the National Assembly.
1865	Abraham left his father's farm and went to Illinois to get education.

5. Read the text and find out if the following sentences are true or false.

1. Abraham Lincoln came from the rich and educated family.

2. Lincoln was born in 12 February, 1809 in a small farm in Indiana.

3. In his childhood Lincoln only learned to read and write and do simple arithmetic.

4. When Lincoln entered politics in 1834, he soon became a force in the political life.

5. The prosperity of the North was based on cotton-growing and only Afro-Americans worked there.

6. The Civil War was over in 1865 with the victory of the Southerners.

7. The assassin’s name was John Booth.

6. Read the text and answer the questions.

1. Where did the Lincoln family move in his childhood?

2. What work did Abraham Lincoln do in Springfield, Illinois?

3. What subjects did Lincoln learn by himself?

4. How did he enter the politics?

5. What was the main reason of the American Civil War?

6. What was Lincoln strongly against?

7. Who were the Southerners headed by?

8. How did the Civil War develop?

9. How did Abraham Lincoln die?

10. Why do Americans consider Abraham Lincoln the most famous example of the “American dream”?