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  2. Trent Affair - Wikipedia

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    President Abraham Lincoln ended the crisis by releasing the envoys. On November 8, 1861, USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet RMS Trent and removed, as contraband of war, two Confederate envoys: James Murray Mason from Virginia and John Slidell from Louisiana.

  3. Presidential transition of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln believed that Southern threats of secession were mostly bluster and that the sectional crisis would be defused, as it had been in 1820 and 1850. [23] However, many Southerners were convinced that assenting to Lincoln's presidency and the prohibition of slavery in the territories would ultimately lead to the extinction of slavery in the ...

  4. Outline of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In doing so, he preserved the Union , abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

  5. Presidency of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term. Lincoln was the first member of the recently established Republican Party elected to the presidency.

  6. Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Lincoln, a portrait by Mathew Brady taken February 27, 1860, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech in New York City. Lincoln accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe ...

  7. Lincoln's House Divided Speech - Wikipedia

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    The House Divided Speech was an address given by senatorial candidate and future president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's US senator. The nomination of Lincoln was the final item ...

  8. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    November 6: Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 presidential election on a platform that includes the prohibition of slavery in new states and territories. [234] Lincoln wins all of the electoral votes in all of the free states except New Jersey, where he wins 4 votes and Stephen A. Douglas wins 3.

  9. 1861 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1861 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the 37th United States Congress, on Tuesday, December 3, 1861, amid the American Civil War, which had begun earlier in the year. [1]