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Abraham Lincoln - The Background Story Part 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221126-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1951

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 23:42:45

TC Ends: 23:52:59

Duration: 00:10:14

Abraham Lincoln - The Background Story Part 1 of 2 Coronet Instructional Films Main title missing CUs statue of Lincoln - log cabin birthplace - stills & portraits - Gettysburg Address in print - visitors to Lincoln Memorial, Washington. 23:44:00 Map of America in 1809 w/ 17 eastern states & western territories. Mississippi Basin - cabin - pioneers w/ covered wagon - simple cabin like the one in Kentucky where Lincoln grew up & Indiana where Lincoln family moved in 1816 - splitting logs for fences - CUs books that influenced Lincoln - Bible, Aesops Fables & Weems’ Life of Washington. Map of US in 1831 - Lincoln’s journey from Illinois to New Orleans. 23:47:14 Negro slaves in South - picking cotton. Reconstruction of New Salem Illinois where Lincoln settled - running general store & studying Law - statue of Lincoln as a young man - voters of New Salem electing Lincoln. 23:49:18 Stills of State House Illinois & Capitol, Washington. Map of US 1848 - new Territories - rural scenes - Springfield Illinois - Lincoln’s house - top shot State House - law office. Lincoln runs against Douglas 1858 - map of US w/ new territories where issue of slavery not yet decided - CU newspaper sketch ‘Douglas Triumphant’. Lincoln at home writing letters & articles. Western Expansion. Slavery. American Civil War. Democracy. Politics.

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