Abraham+Lincoln

The Life of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born in Illinois and was raised in a log cabin. He was married to Mary Todd Lincoln, a rich southern belle. He despised slavery and had strong political views. He was also the 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Lincoln went from being the poor rail-splitter to the most important man in the United States. His presidency was defined by war, the Civil War to be exact. His decisions shaped our nation to be what it is today. One of those decisions was the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which freed slaves in the Confederate states. He was killed by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater in 1865, and has a memorial built in his honor in Washington, D.C.

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The Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America were the southern states that withdrew from the Union during the Civil War. They wanted slavery to stay legal and to claim the West as slave states as well. But with the new republican president, Abraham Lincoln, that future was not looking too good so they formed the Confederacy and declared their independence from the Union. Abraham Lincoln then decided that they could not do this and said they were still a part of the Union. At Fort Sumter South Carolina fired on Union troops and stopped ships from bringing supplies. Thus the Civil War began. The Confederates president was Jefferson Davis and their general was Robert E. Lee. They fought hard for their way of life but lost in the end.

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