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commander and chief
he was elected president and led or nation into a huge crisis (civial war) -
executive
civial war began and eliminated slavery in the united states(1861-1865) eventually slavoy was gone -
legislative
Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. -
diplomat
"With malice toward none with charity for all, with firmness in the right,as god gives us to the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation wounds to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his window and orphan to doall wich manyachive and cherisha just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." -
state
Lincoln's victory in that election thus changed the racial future of the United States. It also agitated Southern-sympathizer and Negrophobe John Wilkes Booth, who began to conspire first to abduct Lincoln and later to kill him. On Apr. 14, 1865, five days after Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Lincoln attended a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington. There Booth entered the presidential box and shot Lincoln. The next morning at 7:22 Linc