Built for the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Memorial shows honor to the former president. As the president of the Republican Party in 1860, he built the party into a stronger national organization. In addition, Lincoln established himself as a Union leader to abolish slavery. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared the freeing of blacks within the Confederacy. Finally, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the nation which gave many blacks a sense of freedom.
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