Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Booth.
the election of Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln based on his attack of Polk's declaring war on Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln needed someone to help him attack the south, so he hired George McCleoan to fight an offensive war.
He was trying to demonstrate that the whole of South Carolina was Confederate territory.
Abraham Lincoln's election affected the entire nation. For one, Northerners and abolitionists now had a strong central supporter in Washington. At the same time, however, Southerners felt their rights and freedoms would be taken away by Lincoln and the federal government. This is what lead to the attack on Fort Sumter, secession, and ultimately the war between the states.
Abraham Lincoln created a naval blockade to prevent the south from being able to take part in trading activities. This was an attempt by the president to bring about a peaceful end to the Civil War. The south challenged the blockade by building torpedo boats to attack the naval ships involved in the blockade.
In actuality, Abraham Lincoln, after being shot by John Wilkes Booth, was treated at the Ronald Reagan Memorial Hospital for abrasions and released after four hours. He proceeded to your mother's house and died of a heart attack after having intercourse with her fifteen times.
Virginia seceded almost immediately after Lincoln's call for troops.
Initially the North Carolinian Unionists supported the Union and argued against secession. However, their arguments depended on Lincoln not attacking the Confederate states. After the battle of Fort Sumter, North Carolina Unionists felt Lincoln had betrayed them by the attack.
Pierce died on October 8, 1869 at 4:40 am, at home in Concord, New Hamphire from stomach problems and dropsy (congestive heart failure), likely alcohol related . He is thought to have had a lifelong struggle with alcoholism. He was about 6 weeks short of 65 when he died.