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He wins the Election of 1860.
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Abraham Lincoln reiterated his promise not to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States and affirmed the rights of states to order and determine their own institutions. To do otherwise, he noted, would violate the U.S. Constitution.
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On April 6, Confederate forces attacked Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh, Tennessee
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He gives the Gettysburg Address, a famous speech.
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