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Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863. ... Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union.
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In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America's independence from Britain. Five years later, the Congress ratified the first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, under which the country would be governed until 1789, when it was replaced by the current U.S. Constitution
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1) The act of implicating oneself in a crime or exposing oneself to criminal prosecution.