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civil waer begins
the war started whe the shots were fired early in the morning at Fort Sumter. -
emancipation proclamation
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery. -
lincoln's speech
Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with "a new birth of freedom, that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, ensuring th -
Lincolns re-elected as president
In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. -
Lincoln is assasinated
Lincoln died from an assassin's bullet on April 15, 1865, replaced by Andrew Johnson