In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln was trying to keep the United States together. It was an unsuccessful plea; less than one month after his inaugural speech, the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter started the Civil War.
Lincoln did not believe in the expansion of slavery, and had already won the election of 1860, which was the final event in a series of occurrences that deepened the growing conflict between northern and southern states. Lincoln's name did not even appear on the ballot in a single Southern state, yet he won the election. The more populated North had outvoted the South. Southerners were now convinced that their voices were not being heard. Led by South Carolina, nine southern states had already seceded from the Union at the time of Lincoln's speech.
I think it is known as the Middle Ages.
Not too sure
He was elected four times but died before his inauguration
In response to the horrors of World War II, the UN drafted the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" which outlined that bare minimum way in which prisoners and other civilians could be treated by the enemy in times of war.
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The U.S. immigrant population ended up growing rapidly during the 1990s, where growth rates went up especially high across a wide band of states in the Southeast, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain regions.
