Abraham Lincoln was
the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until
his assassination. During his term, he was against the expiation of slavery
in the United States and, he helped preserve the United States by leading the
defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil
War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing
his Emancipation Proclamation
in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
in 1865.
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