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Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809.
亞伯拉罕·林肯于1809年出生在肯塔基州。
His mother died when he was ten years old.
他十歲的時候母親就去世了。
Later, his family moved to Illinois and his father remarried.
后來，他們全家搬往伊利諾伊斯州，他的父親再婚了。
The family was poor, so they had to struggle just to live.
他們家里一貧如洗，只能掙扎求生。
In Illinois, there were neither teachers nor schools.
在伊利諾伊斯州，既沒有老師也沒有學校。
But Lincoln's stepmother encouraged him to study.
但是林肯的繼母鼓勵他繼續學習。
He learned to read and write while working on the farm.
他在農場工作的時候學會了讀書寫字。
At twenty-one, Lincoln left home.
21歲的時候，林肯離開了家。
He soon received a law license and became a lawyer.
很快他就獲得了律師資格證，成為了一名律師。
People trusted him and began to call him "Honest Abe".
人們開始信任他，并稱他為“誠實的艾貝”。
During the following years, he took a more active part in politics.
接下來的幾年中，他更加積極地參與到政治中。
Soon he was not only a highly respected lawyer but also a well-known politician.
很快他就不光是一名備受尊敬的律師，還是一位出名的政治家。
He was elected the sixteenth president of the United States in 1861, and in the same year the civil war broke out.
1861年，他被選舉為美國第16屆總統，同年，內戰爆發。
The civil war was between the southern states that wanted to leave the union and form their own country, and the northern states that wanted to keep all the states as one country.
內戰雙方是想要脫離聯邦獨立成國的南方諸州和想要團結統一的北方諸州。
The southern states wanted to keep the laws that allowed them to own slaves.
南方諸州希望能夠保留允許他們擁有奴隸的法律。
Both the northern states and president Lincoln wanted to get rid of those laws.
北方諸州和林肯總統都想廢除這些法律。
On April 9, 1865, the civil war ended and all slaves were set free.
1865年4月9日，內戰結束，所有的奴隸都獲得了解放。
Less than a week later, on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot at the Ford theatre in Washington, DC.
此后不到一周，1865年4月14日，亞伯拉罕·林肯在華盛頓的福特劇院遭遇槍擊。
He died the next day from his wounds.
次日便死于槍傷。
