Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one.

During the Civil War, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared enslaved people in the Confederate states to be free. It changed the purpose of the war by making ending slavery a central goal and helped lead to the slavery ending nationwide with the 13th Amendment.

During the Civil War, several Southern states tried to leave the United States and form their own country. Lincoln believed the United States should stay together, so he led the effort to keep the states united. That’s why people say he preserved the Union.

Lincoln was president when the country split apart and fought the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. He worked to keep the Union together and helped shape the nation’s future during that crisis.

He led the country during the Civil War and is often linked to preserving the Union. He served as president in the early 1860s, and his number in the list of U.S. presidents is commonly memorized.

In 1863, during the Civil War, Lincoln gave a short speech at a battlefield cemetery in Pennsylvania. He honored the soldiers who died and explained that the war was about saving the Union and keeping democracy alive. The speech became one of the most remembered in American history.