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was one of our nation’s greatest presidents. He was the 16th US president. Even though his family was poor, he worked himself to the highest office in the US. As president of the US, he led our country through one of our most difficult times, the Civil War. ....

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.... he was elected, he went straight to the Civil War. The Civil War started on July 4, 1861. No American president had ever faced such a crisis. Lincoln had to find for himself the necessary powers to preserve, protect, and defend. In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was a bill to set most of the slaves free. Two years after that, President Lincoln helped win the Civil War against the Confederacy. I think that President Lincoln was a great president. He worked very hard to do what he did. I thought president Lincoln made some really good decisions and stuck by them. ....