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Legacy The Presidency Abraham Lincoln decided to run for President of the United States in the election of 1860. He won the Presidency running as the leader of a brand new political party called the Republicans. Many slave owners in the south were scared than Lincoln would abolish slavery because they knew he did not like it and many Republicans were abolitionists. Many states in the south declared that they were seceding from the union and creating a new county called the Confederate States of America. Lincoln said that secession was illegal and Americans fought a long deadly Civil War from 1860 to 1865. Under Lincoln’s leadership, the north won the war and America was reunited. Tragically, President Lincoln was assassinated by a southern actor named John Wilkes Booth that could not accept the loss. Lincoln’s body was sent on a long train ride back to Illinois to be buried. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lined the railways to see his train and pay their final respects. The people of the United States are still impacted today by both the life and death of Abraham Lincoln. He refused to compromise on the issue of union when many other leaders would have gladly allowed the south to stay separate from the north. This stronger unified America became a major world power in the 1900’s. His death lead to a difficult reconstruction period that was only partially successful. Many of the racial issues of the civil rights movement could have been settled a hundred years earlier under his pragmatic leadership.