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ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, https://youtu.be/PquJiDenPaA…

- - - - He was born in a log cabin in the woods near Hodgenville in Kentucky in 1809. He was the second son of Thomas Lincoln I and Nancy Hanks.
        
        When he was a young boy, his mother died
        a cause of nausea due to poisoning from contaminated milk and his father lost everything.
      - Abraham went to school only for a few years, in facts he was partly self-taught and he loved reading.
        
        As a young man he did many different jobs and eventually became a lawyer
        
        He entered politics in 1846, but after a few years in Congress he returned to the law.
        
        In the elections of 1860 three candidates clashed: two Democrats and a Republican, Abraham Lincoln. He was elected president for the Republican Party and he was elected president of United States in 1861.
      - In 1865 he was dead shot from John Wilkes Booth in a teatre in Washington DC.
- - - - In the United States, the southern states had remained with a predominantly agricultural economy, while the northern states had become industeialised.
        
        For this the slavery was widespread in the south where there was a need of manpower, while the north had abolished the slave system.
        
        In the north there were continuous anti-slavery movements and when Abraham Lincoln was elected president sided with the north. ( in facts he based his policy on the abolition of slavery)
        
        But the southern states didn't agree with Lincoln.
    - - In 1861 seven pro-slavery states left the Union (northern states led by general Robert Lee) to from the Confederacy led by Jefferson Davis.
        
        In April of same year started the War.
        
        The Union had more popolation and bweapons than Confederacy, but it had the best generals of USA.
        
        600.00 people died during the war, but Lincoln won without dividing the US.
        
        The Civil War endend in 1865 when the Confederacy surrendered.