It was one of the closest elections in American history.
The Republican insider was Richard Nixon of California, relatively young but experienced as the nation's Vice-President for 8 years under Dwight Eisenhower. The Democratic newcomer was JOHN F. KENNEDY, senator from Massachusetts, who at the age of 43 could become the youngest person ever to be elected President. Regardless of the outcome, the United States would for the first time have a leader born in the 20th century.
The reason why the emancipation proclamation was important was because: it freed all the enslaved people in the united states.
<h3>Whaty was President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation?</h3>
This was the insistence by President Lincoln that the American civil war was a war for the enslaved to have their freedom.
The civil war was because the South had disagreed to the freedom of the enslaved blacks in the country.
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