Abraham+Lincoln

__**Abraham Lincoln**__ Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. He was a tall man who was talked about because of his features. He was called unattractive and ugly. He was loved by the north for abolishing slavery and hated by the south because he did abolish it. He did this by putting out the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. All slaves were free except for those in states that were slave states and stayed loyal to the Union. He did this because he didn't want to loose those states. He was also loved by abolitionist as well as slaves. Fredrick Douglass, a famous escaped slave and abolitionist, was a mentor of Lincolns for a time. Years later Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor, on April 14, 1865. This event made Lincoln the first president to be assassinated. media type="custom" key="8459634" align="center" __**The Confederate States of America**__ The Confederate States of America were the southern states who supported slavery and opposed President Abraham Lincoln and what he was doing in the Union. Because of this the southern states decided to make their own group. As you already know this group was called the Confederate States of America. They fought the Union Army in the Civil War. The states in this group consisted of: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. The first and only president of the “Confederacy” (nickname for Confederate States of America) was Jefferson Davis. He had the same rights as the president of the United States. One more thing about the Confederacy was that even though they supported slavery, black men who fought with the Confederacy military forces were free black men media type="custom" key="8459566" align="center"