Eluned haf biography of abraham lincoln

When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in , seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined when hostilities began between the North and South.

A bloody civil war then engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union, enforce the laws of the United States, and end the secession.

Although the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, , it took more than two years for the news to reach.

Although the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, , it took more than two years for the news to reach.

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US Presidents including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Richard Nixon are reputed to have Welsh ancestral links.

The war lasted for more than four years with a staggering loss of more than , Americans dead. Midway through the war, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves within the Confederacy and changed the war from a battle to preserve the Union into a battle for freedom.

He was the first Republican President, and Union victory ended forever the claim that state sovereignty superseded federal authority. Killed by an assassin's bullet less than a week after the surrender of Confederate forces, Lincoln left the nation a more perfect Union and thereby earned the admiration of most Americans as