(A) ** True
(B) False
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Concept note-1: -Lincoln successfully presided over the Union victory in the American Civil War, which dominated his presidency and resulted in the end of slavery. Lincoln took office following the 1860 presidential election, in which he won a plurality of the popular vote in a four-candidate field.
Concept note-2: -Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the nation as a constitutional union and succeeded in abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S. Washington, D.C., U.S.
Concept note-3: -The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln, a moderate former one-term Whig Representative from Illinois. Its platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the South but opposed extension of slavery into the territories.
Concept note-4: -Abraham Lincoln’s career as America’s 16th president spanned about four years, from March 4, 1861 to his murder on April 15, 1865, by a Confederate sympathizer.