SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
START OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Jefferson Davis
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Abraham Lincoln
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George C. McClellan
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Detailed explanation-1: -Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was an American politician and tailor who served as the 17th president of the United States, from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
Detailed explanation-2: -Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
Detailed explanation-3: -The biography for President Johnson and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states’ rights views.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln successfully presided over the Union victory in the American Civil War, which dominated his presidency and resulted in the end of slavery.