which party was this president the leader of?
Republican
Abraham Lincoln
As the leader of moderate Republicans, 
who became the tycoon of the oil industry John D. Rockefeller how did he start his career in business? He became an assistant bookkeeper at age 16 and went into several business partnerships beginning at age 20, concentrating his business on oil refining. what are a few companies he founded? Standard Oil Company is he associated with any massacre? No what philanthropic work was he involved in? Much of his giving was church-related. His church was later affiliated with the Northern Baptist Convention, which formed from American Baptists in the North with ties to their historic missions to establish schools and colleges for freedmen in the South after the American Civil War. when did this civil war start? 1861 what caused the start of this war? The civil war began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people which president got elected during this period? Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln [SEP] Introduction
fort in the South, and Lincoln called up forces to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union. As the leader of moderate Republicans, Lincoln had to navigate a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents on both sides. War Democrats rallied a large faction of former opponents into his moderate camp, but they were countered by Radical Republicans, who demanded harsh treatment of the Southern traitors. Anti-war Democrats (called "Copperheads") despised him, and irreconcilable pro-Confederate elements plotted his assassination. Lincoln managed the factions by exploiting their mutual enmity, by carefully distributing political patronage, and by appealing to the U.S.