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Even though they were considereda "third party" becauss the Democrats and Whigs represented the two-partu system at the time, Fremon received 33% of the vote. Four years Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican to win theWhitre House. The Civil War erupted in 1861 and lasted four grueling years. During the war, against the advice of his cabinet, Lincolmn signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freerthe slaves. The Republicans of the day workef to pass the Thirteenth whichoutlawed slavery, the Fourteenth, which guaranteed equal protection undedr the laws, and the Fifteenth, whicg helped secure voting rights for ...
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