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Abraham Lincoln married a women that goes by the name of Mary Todd Lincoln and had four boys named Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas Lincoln.
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Robert Todd L. was the first-born son of President Abraham and Mary Todd L. Born on August 1, 1843, Springfeild, Illinois, he was the only one of Lincolns four children to have lived to full adult hood.
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Abraham was in the Republican party and was the first republican to be elected president.
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After a brief sint as owner of a general store in 1832, the 16th president of the U.S, was postmaster for the area in which he lived. After that, he taught himself to become the country surveyor. then he became a lawyer, another self-taught profession. He was admitted to the bar in 1837.
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Abraham Liclon was elected president on November 6th, 1860
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The American Cilvil War began at 4:30 A.m in April 12, 1861, when General Pierre G.T. Beauregard's Confedrate artillery opened fire on the Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
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Soon, they were out of supplies after a 33 hour attack, Major Anderson of Fort Sumter surrenders. The federal outpost is evacuated the next day, April 13, 1861.
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In responce to Lincoln's decistion to use force in South Carolina, Virgina secedes, from the nation, followed by three other upper Southern staes: North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Four border slave states remain in the union.
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Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civial War and beggining the process (Emancipution Proclamation) that led to the end of slavery in the U.S.
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Abraham was shot in the head by John Wikes Booth in the Ford`s Theater at 10:13 p.m. and died at 7:22 a.m. the next day.