Lincoln

//Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was born Febuary 12,1809. Lincoln ran unsuccessfully in Illinoise in 1832, two years later he was elected to the lower house for the first of four successive terms as a Whig. Lincoln was two years old when taken to a farm in the neighboring valley of Knob Creek. His only memory was his home and a flash flood that washed away the corn and pumpkin seeds him and his father planted. He had the nickname Honest Abe, as well he was married to Mary Todd in 1842, with 4 children. He was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetary, Springfield, Illinoise, in 1865. In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in the Northeast when he addressed a rally at the Cooper Union in New York. Politics vied with war as Lincoln's major preoccupation in the presidency. The war required the deployment of huge numbers of men and quantities of materiel.// media type="custom" key="8413982" //The// Confederate States of America was an unrecognized state set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southernslave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S. The U.S. government rejected secession as illegal, and after four years of fighting in the American Civil War//, the Confederate armies surrendered, its government collapsed, and its slaves were emancipated. The Confederacy's control over its claimed territory shrank steadily during the course of the war, as the Union took control of much of the seacoast and inland waterways. Secessionists argued that the United States Constitution was a compact among states that could be abandoned at any time without consultation and that each state had a right to secede. After intense debates and statewide votes, seven Deep South Cotton states passed secession ordinances by February 1861, while secession efforts failed in the other eight slave states.//
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