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As the Southern states started to secede after Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1860, Hayes was unsure on the idea of a civil war to restore the Union.
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America fights over slavery with the North and South, if this war wasn't fought then slavery would have extended longer
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Confederate general Robert Edward Lee's surrenders to Ulysses Grant
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Thirteenth amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States
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Hayes was elected president in one of the most debated elections in national history
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Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden both run for presidency and created conflict until the compromise of 1877
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Congress settles the conflict of the election and had their final vote determining the outcome of the presidency.
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Hayes died of a heart attack at his home