1. List of Presidents of the United States / 16th
  2. President of the United States
  3. American Civil War
  4. Abraham Lincoln assassination / Assassinated
  5. History of the United States Republican Party / Republican
  6. lawyer
  7. Illinois
  8. Illinois House of Representatives / state legislator
  9. United States House of Representatives
  10. United States Senate / Senate
  11. slavery in the United States
  12. Republican Party (United States) / Republican Party
  13. United States presidential election, 1860 / elected president
  14. Secession in the United States / secessionist
  15. Confederate States of America
  16. slavery
  17. Emancipation Proclamation
  18. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution / Thirteenth Amendment
  19. Military rank / generals
  20. Ulysses S. Grant
  21. Trent Affair
  22. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland / Britain
  23. Union (American Civil War) / Union
  24. Border states (Civil War) / border slave states
  25. United States presidential election, 1864 / 1864 presidential election
  26. Copperheads (politics) / Copperheads
  27. Radical Republican (USA) / Radical Republicans
  28. Gettysburg Address
  29. Reconstruction era of the United States / Reconstruction
  30. Abraham Lincoln assassination / His assassination in 1865
  31. martyr
  32. Historical rankings of United States Presidents / greatest U.S. Presidents
  33. Personal life
    1. Childhood and education
      1. Thomas Lincoln
      2. Nancy Hanks
      3. log cabin
      4. Hardin County, Kentucky
      5. LaRue County, Kentucky / LaRue County
      6. Thirteen Colonies
      7. Samuel Lincoln
      8. Hingham, Massachusetts
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      10. Hingham, Norfolk / England
      11. Hard-shell Baptists / Hardshell Baptist
      12. Perry County, Indiana / Perry County
      13. Spencer County, Indiana / Spencer County
      14. Northwest Territory
      15. milk sickness
      16. Sarah Bush Lincoln / Sarah Bush Johnston
      17. Macon County, Illinois
      18. Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site / new homestead
      19. Coles County, Illinois
      20. Sangamon River
      21. New Salem, Menard County, Illinois / New Salem
      22. Sangamon County, Illinois / Sangamon County
      23. Denton Offutt
      24. New Orleans, Louisiana / New Orleans
      25. Illinois River / Illinois
      26. Mississippi River / Mississippi
    2. Marriage and family
      1. Mary Todd Lincoln / Mary Todd
      2. Robert Todd Lincoln
      3. Phillips Exeter Academy
      4. Harvard College
      5. Edward Baker Lincoln
      6. William Wallace Lincoln / William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln
      7. Washington, D.C.
      8. Tad Lincoln / Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
      9. Chicago
  34. Early political career and military service
    1. Illinois General Assembly
    2. Whig Party (United States) / Whig Party
    3. Beardstown and Sangamon Canal / Sangamon River
    4. Commentaries on the Laws of England
    5. Admission to the bar in the United States / Admitted to the bar
    6. Springfield, Illinois
    7. John T. Stuart
    8. William Herndon
    9. Illinois House of Representatives
    10. Illinois Politics
      1. United States House of Representatives / U.S. House of Representatives
      2. Henry Clay
      3. Mexican-American War / war
      4. Mexico
      5. James Knox Polk / President Polk
      6. Zachary Taylor
      7. U.S. presidential election, 1848 / 1848 Whig Presidential nomination
      8. Oregon Territory
      9. bar (law) / bar
      10. //www.lincolnatpeoria.com/
      11. Kansas-Nebraska Act
      12. //www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.aspID11&subjectID2
    11. Prairie lawyer
      1. barge
      2. railroad
      3. Alton Railroad / Alton & Sangamon Railroad
      4. James A. Barret
      5. Illinois Supreme Court
      6. William "Duff" Armstrong
      7. James Preston Metzker
      8. judicial notice
      9. Farmer's Almanac
  35. Republican politics 1854–1860
    1. Missouri Compromise
    2. Stephen A. Douglas
    3. popular sovereignty
    4. Abraham Lincoln Peoria speech / Peoria Speech
    5. Free Soil Party / free soil
    6. Lyman Trumbull
    7. James Buchanan / Buchanan
    8. Lecompton Constitution
    9. slave state
    10. Lincoln's House Divided Speech / his famous speech
    11. Gospel of Mark / Mark
    12. Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
      1. The Slave Power
      2. republicanism
      3. democracy
      4. Freeport Doctrine
      5. Cooper Union speech / speech at Cooper Union
      6. Noah Brooks
  36. 1860 Presidential Election
    1. Horace Greeley
    2. William H. Seward
    3. Salmon P. Chase
    4. Decatur, Illinois / Decatur
    5. John C. Breckinridge
    6. John Bell (Tennessee politician) / John Bell
    7. Constitutional Union Party (United States) / Constitutional Union Party
    8. Electoral fusion / fusion tickets
  37. Presidency and the Civil War
    1. Secession winter 1860–1861
      1. South Carolina
      2. Delaware
      3. Maryland
      4. Virginia
      5. North Carolina
      6. Tennessee
      7. Kentucky
      8. Missouri
      9. Arkansas
      10. Crittenden Compromise
      11. Missouri Compromise / Missouri line of 1820
      12. Tierra del Fuego
      13. Baltimore Plot / evaded possible assassins in Baltimore
      14. German American
      15. Turners
      16. Lincoln's First Inaugural / First Inaugural
      17. United States Constitution
      18. Articles of Confederation
      19. Corwin Amendment
      20. Jeremiah S. Black
      21. Joseph Holt
      22. Edwin M. Stanton
      23. Allan Nevins
      24. William Tecumseh Sherman
    2. Fighting begins: 1861–1862
      1. Battle of Fort Sumter / Fort Sumter
      2. Clement Vallandigham
      3. Ex parte Merryman
      4. Baltimore, Maryland / Baltimore
      5. Baltimore riot of 1861 / fought with Union troops traveling south
      6. George William Brown
      7. List of mayors of Baltimore, Maryland / Mayor of Baltimore
      8. Fort McHenry
    3. Emancipation Proclamation
      1. compensated emancipation
      2. "The Liberator," ''National Review'' (March 8, 2004) reviewing Allen C. Guelzo, ''Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America,'' (2004) online
      3. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution / Thirteenth Amendment
      4. Altoona, Pennsylvania
      5. War Governors' Conference
      6. George B. McClellan
      7. Army of the Potomac
      8. Abraham Lincoln on slavery#Colonization / colonies
      9. Frederick Douglass
    4. Gettysburg Address
      1. Battle of Gettysburg
      2. New York Draft Riots
      3. Governor of Pennsylvania
      4. Andrew Curtin
      5. Gettysburg National Cemetery / Soldiers' National Cemetery
      6. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
      7. 20 (number) / score
      8. Civil War
    5. 1864 election and second inauguration
      1. Battle of Gettysburg / Gettysburg
      2. Battle of Vicksburg / Vicksburg
      3. Third Battle of Chattanooga / Chattanooga
      4. Robert E. Lee / Lee's
      5. Andrew Johnson
      6. War Democrats / War Democrat
      7. National Union Party (United States) / Union Party
      8. Copperheads (politics) / Peace wing
      9. William Tecumseh Sherman / Sherman's
      10. Atlanta, Georgia / Atlanta
      11. Lincoln's second inaugural address / second inaugural address
    6. Conducting the war effort
      1. Edwin M. Stanton / Edwin Stanton
      2. William H. Seward / William Seward
      3. Gideon Welles
      4. George B. McClellan / McClellan
      5. First Battle of Bull Run
      6. Winfield Scott
      7. United States Military Academy / West Point
      8. Peninsula Campaign
      9. Richmond, Virginia / Richmond
      10. Virginia Peninsula / peninsula
      11. James River (Virginia) / James
      12. York River (Virginia) / York Rivers
      13. Democratic Party (United States) / Democrat
      14. John Pope (military officer) / John Pope
      15. Army of Virginia
      16. Second Battle of Bull Run
      17. Sioux
      18. Tad Lincoln / Tad
      19. Battle of Antietam
      20. Ambrose Burnside
      21. Battle of Fredericksburg / Fredericksburg
      22. Joseph Hooker
      23. Battle of Chancellorsville
      24. Gettysburg Campaign
      25. George Meade
      26. Third Battle of Chattanooga / Chattanooga
      27. Overland Campaign
      28. attrition warfare / war of attrition
      29. Battle of the Wilderness / Wilderness
      30. Battle of Cold Harbor / Cold Harbor
      31. Siege of Petersburg / Petersburg
      32. Allan Pinkerton
      33. John Alexander McClernand
      34. William Tecumseh Sherman / Sherman
      35. Philip Sheridan / Sheridan
      36. Shenandoah Valley
      37. Georgia (U.S. state) / Georgia
      38. Sherman's March to the Sea
      39. African American
      40. Jubal Anderson Early
      41. Battle of Fort Stevens / raid on Washington, D.C.
      42. Oliver Wendell Holmes
    7. Reconstruction
      1. Radical Republican (USA) / Radical Republicans
      2. Thaddeus Stevens
      3. Charles Sumner
      4. Benjamin Wade
      5. Ten percent plan / Amnesty Proclamation
      6. Louisiana
      7. Wade-Davis Bill
      8. Pocket veto / pocket-vetoed
      9. Jefferson Davis / Jefferson Davis's
      10. Appomattox Court House
  38. Home front
    1. Redefining Republicanism
      1. rhetoric
      2. Republicanism in the United States / republican values
      3. U.S. Constitution / Constitution
      4. United States Declaration of Independence / Declaration of Independence
      5. Cooper Union speech
      6. Reconstruction era of the United States / Reconstruction
      7. state sovereignty
    2. Civil liberties suspended
      1. Union blockade / blockade
      2. habeas corpus
    3. Domestic measures
      1. veto
      2. Homestead Act
      3. Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
      4. agriculture / agricultural
      5. university / universities
      6. First Transcontinental Railroad
      7. income tax
      8. tariff
      9. National Banking Act
      10. United States Department of Agriculture / Department of Agriculture
      11. United States Note
      12. banknote / paper currency
      13. United States Department of the Treasury / Treasury Department
      14. cotton
      15. John Pope (military officer) / John Pope
      16. Dakota War of 1862 / Sioux Uprising
      17. Minnesota
      18. death warrant
      19. Sioux#Isanti (Santee or Dakota) / Santee Dakota
      20. death penalty / execution
      21. reprieve
      22. Thanksgiving (United States) / Thanksgiving holiday
      23. James Madison / James Madison's
      24. 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation
  39. Medical history
    1. frostbite / frostbitten
    2. malaria
    3. physical trauma
    4. smallpox
    5. syphilis
    6. Marfan syndrome
    7. cardiovascular
    8. DNA
    9. multiple endocrine neoplasia
    10. constipation
    11. hypotonia
    12. cancer
    13. Edward Baker Lincoln / Eddie
    14. William Wallace Lincoln / Willie
    15. Tad Lincoln / Tad
  40. Assassination
    1. Clara Harris
    2. John Wilkes Booth
    3. kidnapping / kidnap
    4. First Lady of the United States / First Lady
    5. Ford's Theatre
    6. Vice President of the United States / Vice President
    7. United States Secretary of State / Secretary of State
    8. Ward Hill Lamon
    9. Our American Cousin
    10. Henry Rathbone
    11. Sic semper tyrannis
    12. United States Secretary of War / Secretary of War
    13. Charles Leale
    14. Mortal Wound / mortal
    15. Ford's Theatre#Petersen House / Petersen House
    16. Surgeon General of the United States Army / U.S. Army Surgeon General
    17. Joseph Barnes / Joseph K. Barnes
    18. National Museum of Health and Medicine / Army Medical Museum
    19. Lying in state / lie in state
    20. copperheads (politics) / Copperheads
    21. Lincoln Tomb
    22. Burial#Exhumation / exhumed
  41. Administration, Cabinet and Supreme Court appointments 1861-1865
    1. Supreme Court of the United States
    2. Noah Haynes Swayne
    3. Samuel Freeman Miller
    4. David Davis (Supreme Court justice) / David Davis
    5. Stephen Johnson Field
    6. Chief Justice of the United States / Chief Justice
  42. Religious and philosophical beliefs
    1. New Haven, Connecticut / New Haven
    2. Connecticut
    3. Whig Party (United States) / Whig
    4. liberalism / liberal
    5. capitalism
    6. religion / organized religion
    7. Calvinism / Calvinistic
    8. skepticism
    9. John Locke / Lockean
    10. Age of Enlightenment / Enlightenment
    11. economic liberalism
    12. United States Declaration of Independence / Declaration of Independence
    13. nativism (politics) / nativist
    14. Know Nothing
  43. Legacy and memorials
    1. Historical rankings of United States Presidents / greatest presidents in U.S. history
    2. LGBT rights in the United States / gay rights
    3. Log Cabin Republicans
    4. insurance
    5. Lincoln National Corporation
    6. Lincoln (automobile) / Lincoln automobile brand
    7. detnews.com / Michigan History
    8. ballistic missile
    9. submarine
    10. USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) / ''Abraham Lincoln'' (SSBN-602)
    11. aircraft carrier
    12. USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) / ''Abraham Lincoln'' (CVN-72)
    13. Liberty ship
    14. Spanish Civil War
    15. International Brigades
    16. Abraham Lincoln Brigade
    17. Lincoln, Nebraska / capital of Nebraska
    18. Lincoln, Illinois
    19. Lincoln Memorial
    20. United States five-dollar bill / Lincoln $5 bill
    21. Lincoln cent
    22. Mount Rushmore
    23. Lincoln Home National Historic Site
    24. New Salem, Menard County, Illinois / New Salem, Illinois
    25. Redlands, California
    26. List of U.S. state nicknames / state nickname
    27. Vehicle registration plates of Illinois / Illinois license plates
    28. County (United States) / Counties
    29. U.S. state
    30. Lincoln County, Arkansas / Arkansas
    31. Lincoln County, Colorado / Colorado
    32. Lincoln County, Idaho / Idaho
    33. Lincoln County, Kansas / Kansas
    34. Lincoln County, Minnesota / Minnesota
    35. Lincoln County, Mississippi / Mississippi
    36. Lincoln County, Montana / Montana
    37. Lincoln County, Nebraska / Nebraska
    38. Lincoln County, Nevada / Nevada
    39. Lincoln County, New Mexico / New Mexico
    40. Lincoln County, Oklahoma / Oklahoma
    41. Lincoln County, Oregon / Oregon
    42. Lincoln County, South Dakota / South Dakota
    43. Lincoln County, West Virginia / West Virginia
    44. Lincoln County, Washington / Washington
    45. Lincoln County, Wisconsin / Wisconsin
    46. Lincoln County, Wyoming / Wyoming
    47. Presidents Day (United States) / Presidents Day
    48. Lincoln's Birthday
    49. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
    50. Library of Congress
    51. Hodgenville, Kentucky / Hodgenville
    52. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
    53. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
    54. Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
    55. Elwood, Illinois
    56. Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
    57. Harrogate, Tennessee
    58. Inventor
      1. patent
  44. Images of Lincoln
    1. United States five-dollar bill / American five dollar bill
    2. Daniel Chester French
    3. Proof coinage
    4. cameo
    5. obverse and reverse / obverse
    6. 50 State Quarters
  45. See also
    1. American School (economics) / American School
    2. Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
    3. Lincoln Memorial University
    4. List of assassinated American politicians
    5. List of United States Presidents who died in office
  46. References
  47. Further reading
    1. Isaac N. Arnold
    2. William Herndon (lawyer) / William H Herndon
    3. Lincoln
    4. Albert J. Beveridge / Beveridge, Albert J
    5. online edition
    6. online edition
    7. John Hay
    8. John George Nicolay
    9. Vol 1
    10. Vol 2
    11. Reinhard H Luthin
    12. Mr. Lincoln
    13. Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
    14. Abraham Lincoln (book) / Abraham Lincoln
    15. online edition
    16. online edition
    17. online edition
    18. online edition
    19. Lucius E. Chittenden / Chittenden, Lucius E.
    20. ''Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration''
    21. Google Book Search / Google Books
    22. online edition
    23. online version
    24. Library of America
  48. External links
    1. The Life of Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
    2. Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College
    3. Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
    4. The Lincoln Institute
    5. Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
    6. Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln
    7. Lincoln quotes collected by Roger Norton
    8. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
    9. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
    10. President Lincolns Cottage
    11. Lincoln's Patent
    12. National Park Service Abraham Lincoln birthplace
    13. National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight – Abraham Lincoln
    14. Research Center
    15. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
    16. Lincoln Memorial
    17. Digitized books about Abraham Lincoln from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
    18. Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries
    19. ''Lincoln Home National Historic Site:A Place of Growth and Memory,'' lesson plan
    20. ''Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: Forging Greatness during Lincoln's Youth,'' lesson plan
    21. Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress
    22. Essay on Abraham Lincoln and shorter essays on each member of his cabinet and First Lady from the Miller Center of Public Affairs