use the following sentences tone 'In Wednesday's class, I found Abraham Lincoln's back story to be quite inspiring. He grew up homeschooled and without a mother, It kind of explains why he had a lifelong depression on the count that he didn't have a normal childhood. ' and add the following after it to make a single paragraph'Lincoln ran for his first political office, in the Illinois General
Assembly, and lost
• He then spent the next few years working as the postmaster while
teaching himself law
• Lincoln ran for the Illinois General Assembly again in 1834 and won
his election
• Lincoln was a Whig, which was in some ways the descendent of the
Federalist Party and the predecessor to the Republican Party
• In 1836 Lincoln was admitted to the Illinois bar and became a lawyer
• Lincoln served in the Illinois House until 1842, during which time he
gave the Lyceum Address and Temperance Address
• These speeches got Lincoln attention, and in 1846 Lincoln was
elected to the House of Representatives, where he would serve one
term
• During his tenure, Lincoln sponsored a failed bill that would have
abolished slavery in Washington, DC and opposed the Mexican-
American War.
• After his term in office, Lincoln retired back to private life as a lawyer
• In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, which opened the
possibility of slavery to the territories, where it had previously been
banned
• This controversy brought Lincoln back into public life
• It also led to the collapse of the Whig Party, which struggled to find a
position on the issue of slavery
• Former Whigs, anti-slavery Democrats, and various third party groups
came together to form the new Republican Party in 1856.
• Lincoln was a founding member of the Republican Party.
• Lincoln ran for the Illinois senate seat in 1858 against Stephen
Douglas—the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Lincoln lost that
race, but his debates with Douglas brought him national attention
• Lincoln was a dark horse candidate in the 1860 Republican
presidential primary but won the nomination. He then won the
presidency in a four-way race, beating Stephen Douglas.
• Just after the Union victory in the Civil War, in 1865, Lincoln was
assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
• In Lincoln’s last public speech, Lincoln came out—for the first time—
in support of black male voting rights, which led Booth to decide
Lincoln had to be assassinated.'