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followers yet. Be the first one to follow. Abraham Lincoln was
the sixteenth president of the United States. He was born in
1809 in Kentucky. He had very little schooling. He was a captain
in the Black Hawk War. He was not a member of Congress. He was a
member of the Republican Party and he was elected president in
1860. While he was president, the Republican Party became
strong. In 1863 he freed slaves with the Emancipation
Proclamation. He was re-elected in 1864. He was assassinated in
1865. When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was
elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a
threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to
remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the
United States of America. The secession of South Carolina was
followed by the secession of six more s