American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln's assassination.
President Abraham Lincoln died.
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day a national holiday.
President Abraham Lincoln asked for 500,000 volunteers to join the military service.
Abraham Lincoln issued his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
American president Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day.
Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
US President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians.
Former President Abraham Lincoln ordered the emancipation of slaves across the US from January 1, 1863.
President Lincoln signed an Act that made slavery illegal in US territories.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Acts into law.
The US Department of Agriculture was created after being signed into legislation by President Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln outlawed business with the Confederate States during the Civil War.
South Carolina seceded from the United States of America.
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.
At 11 years old, Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln, saying he should grow a beard.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
Abraham Lincoln received a patent for a device that would lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.
