Abraham Lincoln
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 was a man who was best known for bolding standing against the difficult problems of his day.  Issues such as slavery, negro social and political rights, and saving the Union in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence.  Lincoln had many strength as well as flaws.  He considered himself a  ....          
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....  intoxication, gossip, horse racing, dancing, and slavery.  October 5, a little over a  year after living in Indiana, Lincoln’s mother died of a devastating outbreak of what was called “milk sickness”, along with several other relatives.  The hardest years of Lincoln’s life were yet to follow.  After a short time it became apparent that Thomas Lincoln could not cope with his family by himself.  Thomas went back to Kentucky to seek a wife.  He married Sarah Bush Johnson.  They made  ....          
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