Rearranging: Abraham Lincoln: From Log Cabin to the White House

Jumbled Sentences:

Rearrange the following sentences in correct sequential order to write a coherent and logical narrative:

1. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in April 1865.
2. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky in 1809.
3. His parents were poor frontiersmen who could not afford to send him to regular school.
4. Through relentless self-study and reading books by firelight, he qualified as a lawyer.
5. In 1860, he was elected the 16th President of the United States.
6. Soon after his election, the American Civil War broke out between the North and South.
7. He issued the historic Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing millions of enslaved people.
8. He delivered the immortal Gettysburg Address defining democracy as "government of the people, by the people, for the people".
9. Under his resolute leadership, the Union was preserved and slavery was eradicated forever.
10. Today, he is revered globally as one of humanity’s greatest champions of human freedom.

Correct Order & Sequential Key:

b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> h -> i -> a -> j

The Reconstructed Story / Text:

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky in 1809. His parents were poor frontiersmen who could not afford to send him to regular school. Through relentless self-study and reading books by firelight, he qualified as a lawyer. In 1860, he was elected the 16th President of the United States. Soon after his election, the American Civil War broke out between the North and South. He issued the historic Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing millions of enslaved people. He delivered the immortal Gettysburg Address defining democracy as "government of the people, by the people, for the people". Under his resolute leadership, the Union was preserved and slavery was eradicated forever. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in April 1865. Today, he is revered globally as one of humanity’s greatest champions of human freedom.