Abraham Lincoln Learning by Littles Book Index

Learning by littles from childhood to lawyer	1
Educational goals and possible learnings through Lincoln	1-4
Frontier life and illiteracy	4
Daniel Boone, The Northwest Territory and Ordinance of 1787	4-6
Wilderness living and the Blab Schools	7-8
Nancy Hanks dies, Sarah Bush Johnston, new step-mother	8-10
Lincoln’s Frontier Education	10-11
Lincoln’s Intellect and learning style	11-13
Federal Government Educational Improvement efforts to the present	13-14
Lincoln’s family life in Kentucky and Indiana	14-16
More about the blab schools	16-17
Chapter I Lincoln Family Genealogy Project/Family Tree Project	18-20
How we know so much about Lincoln/ Library of Congress Papers and the adult Robert Todd Lincoln	20-22
Chapter II The Pioneer Farm If you lived with the Thomas Lincoln Family Activity	23-32
Three families move to Illinois, 1830/ Learning like Abe: Read’n, Writ’n, Speeches, Poetry and Cipher’n	25-28
Making a Lincoln journal mural	28-29
Let’s go to blab school!	30-31
Thomas Lincoln: Plan a Farm	32
What’s included in a pioneer farm	34-35
Surveying the farm	36-37
Chapter III Pioneer Travel: How the Lincoln family traveled into Illinois, 1830	38
Packing the wagons	39-40
The Old National Trail Activity	40-45
Chapter IV Abraham moves to New Salem	46
Abraham moves to New Salem: Learning efforts there	46
Mentor Graham and Abraham, More advanced learning	47-49
Abraham’s many careers	50
Lincoln the surveyor	51
Lincoln the stump speaker	52-57
Lincoln the store clerk and owner	57
What was a general store?	58-59
New Salem Postmaster	60
Militia Captain	60
Flatboat Operator	61
Chapter V Abraham moves to Springfield/ meets and marries Mary Todd	63
Mary Todd Lincoln biographical timeline	64-66
The Lincoln family:	65
Wife and mother of four boys: How she did it	66
Clothing the boys at Springfield and Washington D.C.	67-68
Mary’s clothing and dress style	68
Abraham’s clothing	61
Abraham’s eating habits and favorite foods	69-70
Mary’s cooking at Springfield and at Washington D.C.	70-74
The Lincoln family reunion pageant and demonstrations	75-77
Lincoln family picture album	77-78
Lincoln family history timeline	78-85
Chapter VI Abraham Lincoln, lawyer (Lincoln’s Hat Activity)	83
8^th Circuit	85-87
The Lincoln the lawyer activity directions	87-88
You be the judge activity	88-89
Old Courthouse Activity	89-90
Chapter VI Lincoln the Politician 1840’s-1850’s	91
Introduction to Lincoln’s politics 1830’-40’s	93
National Political Parties of the 1840’s and 1850’s	94-97
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858	97-101
Conclusion of Part One	101-

TOPIC	Page Numbers	TOPIC	Page Numbers	TOPIC	Page Numbers
1. Slavery		8. Lincoln's Friends		16. Civil War Life
2. Secession		9. The People		17. The War Room
3. Lincoln's Cabinet		10. Lincoln's Politics		18. On the Battlefield
4. Life in Washington		11. The Founding Fathers		19. Emancipation Proclamation
5. The White House		12. Great Speeches		20. The Medal of Honor
6. Civil War Generals		13. Assassination		21. The War Ends
7. Questions about Lincoln		14. Civil War Technologies		22. Civil War (the first modern war)
23. The First Modern War		24. Primary Sources to Find Lincoln		25. The President’s Assassination

TOPIC	Page Numbers	TOPIC	Page Numbers	TOPIC	Page Numbers
1. Abraham Lincoln Commander and Chief Intro		11.Presidential Leadership during the Civil War		21. First Ladies
2. The Generals from West Point		12. The Higher Moral Ground		22. 54^th Massachusetts in South Carolina
3. Great Battles won and lost		13. Lincoln’s Command		23. Important black people during the Civil War
4. War Statistics for both sides		14. Civil War Politics and the President		24. The Buffalo Soldiers
5. Black Soldiers in the Civil War		15. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction		25. Robert Smalls, Hero
6. The Air Balloon for surveillance (spying)		16. Reading Lincoln’s Writing		26. Frederick Douglass and the Northern Star
7. The. U.S. & Confederate Railroad System		17. Comparing Presidents		27. The Great Locomotive Chase
8. River and Sea Ships, weaponry and ironclads		18. Lincoln and the Abolitionists		28. Mt. Rushmore, S. Dakota
9. Allan Pinkerton, Private Eye		19. Bits and Pieces of Lincoln’s speeches		29. Stone Mountain Memorial, Georgia
10. Finding the Lost Gettysburg Address		20. Before and After the 16^th President