BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

On the night of April 14, 1865, on

THE CIVIL WAR
The American Civil War, which
became the bloodiest conflict on
the continent since Napoleon's
military expeditions, caused
thousands of deaths on both
sides of the Mason-Dixon line,
The three opponents of separating former northern
Lincoln had added almost allies from southern
three million votes against compatriots. . President
Lincoln showed his leadership states that participated in the
to the population of the
Union during the war, as
evidenced by the Gettysburg managed to be re-elected with an
Address, a speech of
a Friday, without the general or
his wife, Lincoln and Mary Todd
left to attend a performance at
the Ford theater. The play was
Our American Cousin. When
In the presidential elections, held
Lincoln sat in the box, John
on November 8, 1864, Lincoln
Wilkes Booth, a Maryland actor,
obtained 55.02% of the votes,
resident in Virginia and a
while McClellan had managed to
Southern sympathizer, appeared
gather 44.96% of the vote. In the
from behind and fired a single
Electoral College Lincoln had 212
shot with a round-headed
electors against 21 McClellan,
Deringer gun to his head. of the
since Lincoln had won in 23 of the
president, after which he
shouted Sic semper tyrannis!
election and McClellan in only 2
(Latin expression meaning
of them.18 Thus, Lincoln
"always the tyrants")
overwhelming majority.

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Lincoln was defeated in less than two million Abraham Lincoln tried to consecration of a cemetery of
the Convention voting Lincoln; but in the Electoral mediate between the states of Union soldiers killed at the
by William L. Dayton, an School Lincoln had 180 the north and the south, and Battle of Gettysburg

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ex-Senator to the United Great Voters against 123 ended up entering a war that he
States Congress for New that added their opponents tried to avoid until the end
Jersey, who thus (152 were needed to win).
became the first vice So Lincoln was the winner

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presidential candidate in and was elected president
Lincoln had turbulent
He was born on the history of the
mood swings that
February 12, 1809 on a Republican Party
alternated between
farm near the town of

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grandiosity and
Hodgenville, in the
depression, which
current county of La
moderated greatly after his
Route of the State of
marriage to Mary Todd
Kentucky.

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Lincoln.

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