In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the slaves in the states 'in rebellion' to be free. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland and elsewhere, and averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair.

Lincoln closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the South's trade. His Gettysburg Address came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose. He managed the factions by exploiting their mutual enmity, carefully distributing political patronage, and by appealing to the American people. Anti-war Democrats (called ' Copperheads') despised Lincoln, and irreconcilable pro-Confederate elements plotted his assassination. His allies, the War Democrats and the Radical Republicans, demanded harsh treatment of the Southern Confederates. Lincoln, a moderate Republican, had to navigate a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from both the Democratic and Republican parties. Following the bombardment, Lincoln mobilized forces to suppress the rebellion and restore the union. Just over one month after Lincoln assumed the presidency, the Confederate States attacked Fort Sumter, a U.S.

During this time, the newly formed Confederate States of America began seizing federal military bases in the south. Pro-slavery elements in the South viewed his election as a threat to slavery, and Southern states began seceding from the nation. Lincoln ran for president in 1860, sweeping the North to gain victory. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. He soon became a leader of the new Republican Party. In 1854, he was angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, and he re-entered politics. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in central Illinois. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, primarily in Indiana. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the nation as a constitutional union and succeeded in abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. Abraham Lincoln ( / ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən/ LINK-ən February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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