<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>
Because it can help us better understand how people talked back then
Why was the election of 1800 an important turning point in American history? This election of 1800 was an important turning point in American history because at the time the Federalists controlled the army the presidency and Congress they could've refused to step down and overthrown the Constitution.
He was called that because "he was as tough as an old hickory".
The answer is e because after the civil war they couldn't trust each other anymore
