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Following the bombardment, Lincoln mobilized forces to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union. Just over one month after Lincoln assumed the presidency, the Confederate States attacked Fort Sumter, a U.S. During this time the newly formed Confederate States of America began seizing federal military bases in the south. Pro-slavery elements in the South viewed his election as a threat to slavery, and Southern states began seceding from the Union. Lincoln ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North to gain victory. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen Douglas. He soon became a leader of the new Republican Party. In 1854 he was angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act that opened the territories to slavery, and re-entered politics. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in central Illinois. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, primarily in Indiana. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. Abraham Lincoln ( / ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən/ LINK-ən February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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