1. The main idea of the passage is that Abraham Lincoln, despite having very little formal education, became a successful politician and leader through self-education and determination.
2. Lincoln’s father died when he was six years old, and his family moved to Indiana, where he grew up in a wild region with few schools and no requirement for teachers to have qualifications.
3. Lincoln learned to read, write, and cipher from the Rule of Three, but had little formal schooling; he picked up education whenever possible under pressure from work.
4. At age 21, Lincoln moved to Illinois and later to New Salem, where he worked as a clerk and joined the Black Hawk War, which gave him more pleasure than any job he’d had before.
5. Lincoln was elected to the Legislature in 1832 after losing the first election, and then won three succeeding biennial elections, serving in the Legislature without being a candidate afterward.
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