10-day forecast. 1  Weather News. 2  Dangerous surf will threaten some beachgoers this weekend AccuWeather. 3  Big Sur usually canât keep people away.  Several states at risk of hail, floods during stormy Easter weekend AccuWeather.
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer, legislator and opponent of slavery, was elected president in November 1860âbut by the time of his inauguration in March 1861, seven Southern states had seceded, and the Civil War began a few weeks later.
Abraham Lincoln lead our country through the civil war keeping it together. The big thing that he did was end slavery. He was the one who created the Emancipation Proclamationâ¦, which is what led to the end of slavery. Lincoln supported the Homestead Act, which allowed poor people in the east take land in the west.