1. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States.
2. He was born in Kentucky.
3. He became president in 1861.
4. The Civil War started in 1861, shortly after he took office.
5. The main issue that caused the Civil War was slavery and states' rights, particularly whether new states should be admitted as free or slave states.
6. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in Confederate-held territory were to be set free.
7. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863.
8. The Union (Northern states) won the Civil War.
9. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
10. He died the next day, April 15, 1865.
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