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Abraham Lincoln by Jake


 * Opposed the spread of slavery

Preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
 * Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
 * Determined to preserve the Union by force if neccessary
 * Believed the U.S. was one nation, not a collection of individual states
 * Wrote the Gettysburg Address which stated that the Civil War was fought to