1. Abraham Lincoln - Leadership and Legacy
Lincoln is considered the savior of the union during the Civil War and emancipated all of the slaves living in America with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. ... Lincoln joined and support the the Whig Party because of their protective tariffs and he shared their views against slavery, believing that slavery only hurt the national economy. ... Lincoln saw no right for the states breaking away but did not want a war, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ... Despite this only a month later Charleston Harbor broke into conflict...
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