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Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer in states who served as the 16th president of the United States. From 1861 until his assassination. In 1865, Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government and modernizing the US economy. Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, primarily in indiana. He was self educated and became a lawyer, the Wig party leader, Illinois, state legislator and U. S. Congressman from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his law practice but became fixed by the opening of additional lands to slavery as a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, He re entered politics in 1854, 4, becoming a leader in the new Republican Party And he reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen Douglas Lincoln ran for president in 1860, sweeping the north to gain victory. Pro slavery elements in the south viewed his election as a threat to America and began seizing federal military bases in the south. Just over one month after Lincoln assumed the presidency, the confederate states attacked fort Sumpter, a U. S. Sport in south Carolina. Following the bombardment, Lincoln mobilized forces to suppress the rebellion and restore the union Lincoln, moderate republican had to navigate a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from both the democratic and republican parties. His allies, the war democrats and the radical republicans demanded harsh treatment of the southern confederates. Antiwar democrats, otherwise known as copperheads, despised Lincoln and irreconcilable pro confederate elements plotted his assassination. He managed the factions by exploiting their mutual anonymity, carefully distributing political patronage and by appealing to the american people. His Gettysburg address appealed to nationalistic republican, egalitarian libertarian and democratic sentiments. Lincoln closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the south's trade. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland And avert a British intervention by diffusing the Trent affair. And in 1863, he issued the emancipation proclamation which declared the slaves in the states in rebellion to be free, and also directed the Army Navy to recognize them, maintain the freedom of such persons and to receive them into the armed service of the United States. They can also pressure border states to outlaw slavery and promoted the 13th amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which, upon its ratification abolish slavery, Lincoln managed his own successful reelection campaign and sought to heal the war torn nation through reconciliation on april 14th, 18 65. Just days after the war's end, at the epidemics, he was attending a play at ford's theater in Washington, D. C. With his wife mary when he was fatally shot by a confederate sympathizer, john wilkes booth, abraham Lincoln is remembered as a modern and a national hero for his wartime leadership and for his efforts to preserve the Union and abolished slavery. Lincoln is often ranked book popular scholarly pose, the greatest prison in american history.