Fun Facts At six feet four inches tall, Abraham Lincoln was the tallest President. Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd, was from Kentucky. People did not think Lincoln was a handsome man. When a little girl named Grace Bedell wrote him a letter saying he should grow a beard, he did! Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Sequence Text Features Glossary Captions Illustrations Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14389-8 ì<(sk$m)=bedije< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U by Barbara L. Luciano shelter independence enslaved tradition Would you like to be the President some day? Why or why not? Write about what you would do if Our you were President. Tell 16th President about what you would change. ln Vocabulary Write to It! AB Abraham Lincoln helped make important changes to our country. He was the sixteenth President of the United States. In this book you will learn about some of the things he did. Write your paragraph on another sheet of paper. Photographs Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. by Barbara L. Luciano ISBN: 0-328-14389-8 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left