Abraham Lincoln as President...
- Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States
- He was in office for 4 years and 1 month before he was assassinated
- Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated
- He was assassinated on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre
- He passed the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that all slaves in rebelling states were to be released but did not apply to the still connected Border State's slaves
- Fort Sumter: One of the two union property still standing in the South, this is where the first shots were fired of the Civil War in April of 1861.
- Lincoln sent in provisions for the fort, not to reinforce it.
- After the 36 hour attack on Fort Sumter the people at the fort surrendered.
- Lincoln was nicknamed "honest Abe"