By the passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Act. He then decided to return to politics.
He's dead!
wanting slaves to be free.
He was the president of the ENTIRE country not part of it.
Winning the Civil War.
because southerners thought Abraham Lincoln was going to remove slavery
She was so very sad that eventually she had to be placed in an institution for the insane.
Abraham Lincoln's family was very glad that he was putting forth the hard work for short periods of time.
Yes, it is doubtful he would have pursued his war policy so vigorously if he had not.
While Abraham Lincoln was happy that the North prevailed in the Battle of Gettysburg, he was aghast at the human cost. He gave an outstanding eulogy to those men in November of 1863.
Some people did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln's choice to end slavery. Most of these people wanted to kill him, resulting in his assassination in 1865. Many historians feel his suspension of the Constitutional right of habeas corpeus during the Civil War was illegal and amoral.
I don't think it really did. It made the Lincoln-Haters feel better since he was dead, but I don't think there were any benefits beyond that. Slavery was still ended.