Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, the USA and (11) ………. in a poor family.
When he was 23, he (12) ………. to college but he didn’t get a place.
A year later he started his own business, (13) ………. , it wasn’t successful.
In 1835, he got married to Mary Todd and they had four boys, one of (14) ……….
lived to maturity. From 1838 to 1859 he worked in politics but lost eight (15) ………. . ,
yet, through debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation and won the nomination
(16) ………. President. In 1960 he became the 16th president of the United States. As president,
he built the Republican Party (17) ………. a strong national organization. In 1863, he issued the
Emancipation Declaration (18) ………. slaves within the Confederacy forever free.
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, but a year (19) ………. , he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre
in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor who (20) ………. thought he was helping the South.