Born on Feb 12, 1809, sworn in on march 4, 1861 he faced a nation crisis
Lincoln talking to end slavery
Enraged by the election of a candidate committed to placing slavery on the path to “ultimate extinction,” the seven states of the Deep South had declared themselves seceded from the Union.
Changing the enancipation
He felt that as president, his constitutional duty to preserve the Union was paramount. Tho, in the early stages of the war, Lincoln avoided radical measures, desperate to keep a broad Unionist coalition intact.
Attack on Fort Sumter
Lincoln was open to ending slavery and was starting to begin being aganist slavery and there was a shift into the emancipation proclomation, which declared slaves helf in areas that were in active rebellions were to be forever free.
Lincoln was starting to become more and mor aganist slavery and he thought of freesing native americans and this i him signing for native americans to befree'
There is now a crisis because of the attaxck on fort sunmter lincoln now has to deal with this and see ewhat he has to do He must make the calls. This was the start of the Civil War.