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When we read the history of the United States of America , we
remember above all two great names : George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln .
George Washington , the general who commanded the North American
Army in the War of Independence against Britain , became the
first President of the United States . He and those who fought
with him did much for their country : they freed it from
colonial oppresion . But Abraham Lincoln had a greater wish : he
wanted to see all the people of the United States, including
the Negroes , free from oppression and exploitation by the rich
, the owners of the big plantations .
Abraham Lincoln was the son of a poor farmer . He was born in
1809 and his childhood was spent in hard work , helping his
father on their small farm . But in 1816 , when the young
Abraham was only seven years old , his father lost his farm
and the family moved to another part of the country , where
the boy worked as a farm labourer , a shop assistant and later
as a clerk in the post - office . Then , in 1818, his mother ,
whom he loved very dearly , died . Happily for him , when his
father maried again , the second wife was a good mother to him
to . Seeing that Abraham liked reading , she did all she could
to help him . But the family was poor and the boy could not
get many books . His favourite ones were The life of George
Washington and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe . He himself
later said that he only went to school „ by littles †- a
litle now and a little then , and not more than a year in
all . But he worked hard and later even became a lawyer .
In 1847 he was selected a member of the US Congress . In all
his political work , Lincoln thought of building a free state
for all the people . The state , he said , could not be half
free and half slaves , it must be all one or all the other .
In 1860 , Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United
States . Then he worked still harder for freedom for the slaves
.
During the Civil War betwen the North and South,Lincoln was named
commander-in-chief of the Union Army , and in 1865 the war was
won by the Union Army and those who wanted freedom for the
slaves .
In 1864 , he was elected President of the United States for
the second time . But his enemies , the owners of the
plantations in the South and the bankers in New - York who
had grown rich on the work of the slaves , could not let
Lincoln continue his good work . He was shot in a theatre in
New York on April 14 , 1865 and he died the next day .
At the opening of a memorial to the many men who had lost
their lives fighting for the freedom of the Negroes , Abraham
Lincoln told his country - men that the living must finish the
work of those dead ; that they must fight for freedom for all
- blaks and whites ; that America must strengthen government of
the people by the people and for the people .
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