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16th President of the United States · 1809–1865 · Leadership & Politics

Held the Union together through four years of civil war, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and was shot five days after Lee surrendered.

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“With malice toward none, with charity for all.”

Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865

Who Abraham Lincoln was

Lincoln had roughly a year of formal schooling. He read law on his own in Illinois, served a single term in Congress, and lost a Senate race to Stephen Douglas after the debates that made him nationally known. Elected in 1860 on a platform of halting slavery's expansion, he watched seven states secede before he took office. He fired generals until he found Grant, suspended habeas corpus, and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on 1 January 1863, redefining the war's purpose. The Gettysburg Address ran to about 270 words. He pushed the Thirteenth Amendment through the House in January 1865 and was assassinated at Ford's Theatre that April.

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How did you decide when to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

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What did you cut to get Gettysburg down to two minutes?

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What was the hardest order you ever gave a general?

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What did you plan for the South after the war?

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