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Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman, politician, and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. Wikipedia
Born: 12 February 1809, Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States
Height: 1.93 m
Assassinated: 15 April 1865, Petersen House, Washington, D.C., United States
Party: National Union Party
Spouse: Mary Todd Lincoln (m. 1842–1865
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16Th President of America. He was the first republican that was elected as President. He ran for senate two times and lost both. When he was in office he was mostly occupied with the states that broke away from the Union,who was named the Confederate States of America. The first to break away was South Carolina followed by 6 other states before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. And then four more at the beginning of the Civil War,Battle of Fort Sumter. Lincoln was inaugurated into office in March of 1861. Lincoln was one of the reasons the pro-slavery states broke away, they where afraid that Lincoln was going to ban slavery because Lincoln was an anti-slavery person.…show more content…
Lincoln had made the Emancipation Proclamation,which banned slavery to the CSA(Confederate States of America)that didn't come back to the Union by Jan 1, 1863. It also named the states it applied to. But it didn't name the boarder states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware because those states did not actually declare secession so they didn't free any slaves in those states at the time. They also didn't name Tennessee because it was mostly back to the Union by then. Most slaves where not let go immediately but the Act freed thousands of slaves. Lincoln thought people would think that the Emancipation Proclamation would be only temporary due to the war and be soon forgotten. So what Abraham did is he made the 13Th Amendment. The 13Th Amendment stated that slavery was illegal to all states, and also that it is illegal to make people work against their will to benefit themselves,which is called involuntary servitude. The C.S.A collapsed when generals Robert E.Lee and Joesph E. Johnston surrendered their armies over to the Union. Later the Union soldiers captured Jefferson Davis(The Confederate President) on May of 1865. At almost the end of the war Lincoln had a very reasonable view on what the nation