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Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States who successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address was one of the speeches given in American History were Abraham Lincoln try to invoke the Declaration of Independence and he tried explaining that they were there to acheive "a new birth of freedom" not to preserve the Union.
The Start of the Civil War When Confederate fired on Fort Sumter and the north forced its surrender, Abraham Lincoln called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.
Reconstruction Abraham Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of voters had taken an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation.
Emancipation of Proclamation declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America, however this did not apply to the border states which were neither a part of the Confederate or Union.
Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death.
