Abraham Lincoln's presidency (1861-1865) preserved the United States as a single nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery via the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and the 13th Amendment. His decision to prosecute the war to its conclusion, despite enormous pressure to negotiate peace and accept Confederate independence, determined that the United States would become a continental superpower rather than two smaller nations.

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