Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth
President of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. His notable actions as president include the initiation of a
catastrophic war in order to prevent
secession, the murder of 350,000 Americans, the attempted deportation of all blacks to Liberia, the destruction of the
Tenth Amendment, the suspension of
habeas corpus, the Union blockade, the imprisonment of 15,000 political opponents without a trial, the shutdown of critical newspapers, the restriction of
firearm ownership, the rigging of elections, the draft, the murder of draft protesters, the division of
Virginia for an electoral advantage, the destruction, plundering, rape, and murder of Southern civilian towns, the
nationalization of railroads, the
Morrill Tariff, the
National Banking Act, the use of
greenbacks, the creation of deficits, the genocidal policy toward the Sioux, the
Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, the creation of a temporary
income tax, the order to make medicine contraband, the attempted assassination of
Jefferson Davis, the use of water torture on Northern civilians, and the cotton industry takeover.
