Dates in Office: 1861-1865
Important Information:
- Led the U.S. thorough its greatest constitutional, military & moral crisis (The Civil War)
- Preserved the Union
- Abolished slavery
- Strengthened the national government
- Modernized the economy
- Opposed the expansion of slavery
- Had no support in the South, but dominated the North during the election of 1860
- Fort Sumter
- Established the Emancipation Proclamation
- Helped push for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
- Reached out to "War Democrats" and gained his reelection