<span>Despite his personal opposition to slavery, when President Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861 he insisted that his constitutional duty was to keep the nation together, not to abolish slavery. He conducted the first year of the war with the goal of reuniting the Union, but wartime events, including heavy military losses and the many slaves who escaped behind Union battle lines, forced him to contend with the issue of slavery. He issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 and the final version on January 1, 1863, fundamentally changing the meaning of the war.</span>
Here are some candidates who won popular vote, but not electoral college, which means that they couldn't become president in those elections:
1. Andrew Jackson lost to John Quincy Adams in 1824
2. Samuel Tilden lost to Rutherford B Hayes in 1876
3. Grover Cleveland lost to Benjamin Harrison in 1888
4. Al Gore lost to George W Bush in 2000
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The Ottoman Empire began its expansion into Europe by taking the European portions of the Byzantine Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries up until the 1453 capture of Constantinople, establishing Islam as the state religion in the region.
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Having a central government
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The ability to tax and spend through a centralized goverment
