2006-08-07 09:47:33 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
So assuming you're not serious with this question or that you worded it wrong, I'll give you a little insight into good ole Honest Abe and his Dishonest state. I'm from Illinois, plus I have a degree in History, so I did do my research.
If you go to New Salem, IL you can tour the house that Lincoln grew up in. It's a tiny shack with one room and you couldn't believe someone actually grew up there. Unfortunately he didn't.
That house, and most of the "historic" houses in New Salem were built nearly 12 years after he died. He didn't have a horrible life and his house wasn't a tiny shack. Don't believe everything you hear. Remember, George Washington never actually cut down a cherry tree. People make up stories so that everyone will think more positively about their historic leaders.
2006-08-07 10:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by just sam 1 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Yep, popped right out of his mom's belly got that cabin built, then jumped back in, hung out in the ole belly for awhile and came on out a few months later to a nice log home he helped build before he was ever born. He really was an amazing guy that Abe Lincoln.
2006-08-07 16:53:12 · answer #2 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Log cabin, yes. Built with his father, no (cute, but old). He was born in a log cabin in Kentucky, then his family moved to Indiana (he may have helped build that one). Later, he moved to Springfield, Illinois.
2006-08-08 08:45:08 · answer #3 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How in the world could that possibly be true? Think about it. How could he have been born in a cabin that didn't exist? How could he have helped his dad build a cabin if he wasn't born yet? Come on now....
2006-08-07 16:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by Jessie P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could he help build the cabin before he was born? Maybe just his father built it.
2006-08-07 16:53:13 · answer #5 · answered by clone1973 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No---- How can you help your father build a log cabin that you were born in?
2006-08-07 16:53:41 · answer #6 · answered by georgia_102560 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could he have been born in a cabin he helped build?
2006-08-07 16:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by curiositycat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, he helped his father build the cabin, and then he was born.
he also walked 10 miles to school. in the snow, uphill, both ways.
2006-08-07 16:52:29 · answer #8 · answered by digital genius 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he was born in it, how could he have built it?
2006-08-07 16:56:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how can you build a cabin and then be born in it?
2006-08-07 16:54:47 · answer #10 · answered by at a snail's pace 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋