Abolished slavery in MOST nourthern states
Emancipation
Pardon
He pardon them
He suspended the right to habeas corpus
They seceded from the USA, starting with South Carolina.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the ONLY President who will EVER be elected to more than two terms (He was elected to four)
Abraham Lincoln even though he thought his action was unconstitutional.
He suspended the right to habeas corpus
After the assassination of President Lincoln, his vice president, a man with loyalties to the south and no sympathy for African Americans assumed the highest office. President Andrew Johnson's 1865 pardons of former Confederates, and his veto of Civil Rights Legislation, because it called for equality between blacks and whites, offended African Americans.
The Democrats, who were a minority in Congress vigorously opposed Lincoln's actions in Maryland. They believed that suspending civil liberties, and using Federal troops was not the proper response. On the other hand, Lincoln believed that he had Constitutional authority in time of war to suspend habeas corpus, stop newspapers from opposing Union activities, and arrest people thought to be Southern sympathizers.
quick military action to show the folly of secession.
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