TIME MACHINE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FIRST INAUGURATION
Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration as the 16th President of the United States occurred on March 4, 1861. The event marked the first time that a candidate from the Republican Party would enter the White House as this country's head of state.
The past two to three decades marked a great deal of turmoil for the United States, due to the growing sectional conflict that had developed between the Northern and Southern states over slavery and other issues. The Democratic Party (previously the Democratic-Republican Party) had dominated the country...
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