Timeline and Terms

Events

Began practicing law
Black delegation at White House
Black Hawk War
Death of Lincoln
Death of Lincoln’s mother
Death of Willie Lincoln
Denounced Dred Scott decision
Edward Baker born
Elected to House
Elected to Illinois General Assembly
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation draft
Father remarried
First political speech
First private meeting between Lincoln and Douglass
Gettysburg Address
Last public speech
Lincoln assassinated
Lincoln born
Lincoln elected president
Lincoln inaugurated
Lincoln nominated for president
Lincoln re-elected
Lincoln urged Thirteenth Amendment
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Lincoln-Douglas debates published
Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech
Lost legislature’s vote for US Senate
Married Mary Todd
Moved near Decatur, Illinois
Moved to Indiana
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Received 110 votes for vice president at Republican National Convention
Robert Todd born
Second meeting of Lincoln and Douglass
Tad born
Ten Percent Plan
Trip to New Orleans
William Wallace born

People

Abraham Lincoln
Ambrose Burnside
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
Benjamin Butler
Dred Scott
Frederick Douglass
George B. McClellan
Henry Clay
Horace Greeley
Jefferson Davis
John C. Calhoun
John C. Frémont
Stephen A. Douglas
Ulysses S. Grant
Wendell Phillips
William Seward
Winfield Scott