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Self-Made American Entrepreneurs
Meet our winner and eight other entrepreneurs whose stories inspired us to create a list of honorable mentions.
Self-Made Entrepreneurs
See 10 entrepreneurs who faced incredible odds and rose from humble beginnings to start their businesses.
Entrepreneurial Presidents
Discover past presidents who exhibited great entrepreneurial acumen to rise to their positions as leaders of this nation.

Quiz

Test your Lincoln knowledge by taking our interactive quiz.

How well do you know Abraham Lincoln?

Take our interactive quiz to find out just how sharp your knowledge is of one of our most famous presidents.

1. What year was Lincoln born?

1809
1812
1805

2. At which farm, owned by his father Thomas, was Lincoln born?

Knob Hill Farm
Sinking Spring Farm
Pigeon Creek Farm

3. What mysterious illness took the life of Lincoln's mother, Nancy?

Milk sickness
Typhoid fever
Tuberculosis

4. How many years of formal education did Lincoln have?

Less than a year
Five years
Eight years

5. For what did Lincoln receive a patent?

A mechanism that helped shoe horses
A device to lift riverboats above sand bars
A farm apparatus that assisted in picking corn

6. Lincoln was a partner in what type of store for a brief period of time.

A clothing retailer
A grocery store
A grain and feed store

7. What place did Lincoln come in during his first attempt to be elected to the Senate?

Second
Eighth
Thirteenth

8. Who was Lincoln's first law partner?

Stephen T. Logan
William H. Herndon
John Todd Stuart

9. T or F: Lincoln was a prolific poet.

True
False

10. In what year did Lincoln win election to Congress?

1832
1834
1836

11. Fill in the blank: Lincoln was our ____ president.

Fourteenth
Sixteenth
Nineteenth

12. In which inaugural address did Lincoln proclaim, "We are not enemies, but friends."

First inaugural address delivered on March 4, 1861
Second inaugural address delivered on March 4, 1865

13. T of F: Lincoln once proclaimed that corporations were threatening the country's welfare.

True
False

14. On what day did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address?

Oct. 31, 1863
Nov. 19, 1863
Dec. 9, 1864

15. On what day was Lincoln assassinated?

Friday, April 21, 1865
Friday, April 14, 1865
Monday, April 10, 1865


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