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He was born in a one room log cabin in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
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Mary Todd was born in Lexington, Kentucky.
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He was an unpopular candidate for his strong stance against the war with the U.S. and Mexico. After serving his term he did not seek reelection.
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He ran for the Republican Party against Steven Douglas, a Democrat. He ran for president because he disagreed with the Kansas-Nebraska Act, an law that stated that voters of each territory, rather than the state, had the right to vote and decide whether they were a free or slave territory.
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By the time Lincoln was inaugurated, sevens states had seceded from the union and formed The Confederate States of America.
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Freed all of the slaves in the rebellious states, but left slaves in the border states enslaved.
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Lincoln gave a short but famous speech at the new cemetery in Gettysburg abut human equality and the founding fathers.
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Lincoln gives a speech about rebuilding the south with malice towards none and charity for all.
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On the White House lawn, Lincoln gave a speech about reconstruction days after Robert E. Lee surrendered.
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On the evening of April 15, 1865 John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and confederate sympathizer, shot and assassinated Lincoln in Ford's Theater, Washington DC.
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