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Thomas Jefferson, John Adams y Benjamin Franklin sign the independence declaration.
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Abraham Lincoln published a first version of the emancipation proclamation decreeing that all persons possessed as slaves in a state in rebellion against the United States would "forward, and forever free"
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The attack was planned and conducted by the actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth cause, as part of a larger conspiracy to gather the remaining Confederate troops to continue fighting.
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