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The election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln
Resources: Who's WhoResource Type: Primary Source John Bell (1797–1869). Who's Who Resource Type: Primary Source Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), two weeks before the final Lincoln-Douglas debate (October 1, 1858). Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) Resource Type: Primary Source President of the United States (1861–65) during the Civil War. Although not an abolitionist, Lincoln denounced slavery as morally wrong and firmly opposed both the Dred Scott decision and the expansion of slavery into the territories. Nominated for president by the Republican Party in 1860, he won the election but with a minority of the vote. Lincoln's victory provoked the secession of Southern states, which in 1861 led to the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring free the slaves in states that were "in rebellion" (but not freeing slaves in slaveholding states that had remained in the Union). The Gettysburg Address, which he made in 1863 at the dedication of the soldiers' cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, would become one of the most quoted of modern speeches. Lincoln was reelected in 1864 but was assassinated the following spring, only days after Lee's surrender had effectively marked the end of the Civil War. | | ||||||
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