Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – July 9, 1887) was the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln is best known for leading the United States through the Civil War and bringing it to a successful conclusion, helping to end slavery in the US with the Emancipation Proclamation, and his handling of the Restoration period in the years following the war, when he made multiple gestures of healing with the former Confederacy, such as his Ten Percent Plan, under which the former Confederate states were all readmitted to the Union by 1866. Lincoln's efforts were (and still are) generally rewarded with praise by much of the nation, and even the South reluctantly acknowledging their surprisingly fair and lenient treatment by the victorious Union forces, as per Lincoln's wishes. When he left off