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Lost legislature’s vote for US Senate

Lincoln narrowly lost a bid for a seat in the US Senate when the legislature in Springfield, Illinois, elected Lyman Trumbull instead.

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Death of Willie Lincoln

Lincoln’s 11-year-old son Willie died.

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Last public speech

Abraham Lincoln delivered his last public speech, which focused on the plans and problems of Reconstruction.

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Death of Lincoln

Lincoln died at 7:22 am.

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Emancipation Proclamation

President Lincoln issued his official Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State . . . in rebellion against the United States . . . thenceforward and forever free.” Slaves in loyal areas (including the Border States) were not freed by the proclamation, as Lincoln believed that he only had the power to issue the proclamation “as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion” (though he would soon press for the emancipation of all slaves with the Thirteenth...

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Black Hawk War

The Black Hawk War began when Black Hawk, chief of the Sauk Indians, crossed the Mississippi River to plant corn on the tribe's old fields in Illinois. Capt. Abraham Lincoln and Lieut. Jefferson Davis took part in the conflict. The Sauk surrendered in August, after many older men, women, and children were massacred in Wisconsin while carrying white flags.

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Lincoln-Douglas debates

In a series of seven political debates across the state of Illinois, Senate-hopeful Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Stephen Douglas argued the question of slavery. Though Lincoln lost to Douglas, the debates pushed him into the nation’s consciousness and made him a viable presidential candidate in 1860.

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Death of Lincoln’s mother

Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died.

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Trip to New Orleans

In April 1828, Lincoln took a flatboat of farm produce to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was reported to have observed a slave auction.

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First political speech

Lincoln delivered his first political speech, calling for navigation improvements on the Sangamon River.