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American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world.
With the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), the President publicly endorsed the abolition of slavery in southern states. Lincoln's decision to support slavery's end in the south was mostly an economic decision, hoping to strike a serious blow to their ability to support agricultural endeavors. Lincoln did not ask the Border States to give up slavery.
A typhoon destroyed his fleet!
