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Abraham Lincoln

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

The Great Emancipator · 16th President · 16th President of the United States · 1809–1865

The frontier lawyer who held the Union together, ended slavery, and paid for it with his life.

Why Lincoln is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. Abraham Lincoln can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of Lincoln — five chapters

  1. A Frontier Childhood — Kentucky, Indiana, and a borrowed education
  2. The Politician and the Question — A career revived by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  3. Holding the Union Together — Generals, habeas corpus and a war nobody expected to last
  4. Two Hundred and Seventy-Two Words — Gettysburg, the Second Inaugural, and how he wrote
  5. Ford's Theatre and the Unfinished Peace — Five days after the surrender

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