... production, seceded from the union. the north and south had compromised so many times and the south saw no way of compromising their way out of not having slavery once Lincoln was elected. Although the secession started as a misconception, the civil war itself started because of years of unbalanced economic systems, strong abolitionists and their powerful arguments, as well as ... wrongness of slavery, eventually led to the election of a President who also didn't like slavery, Republican and 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. In the election of 1860, as seen in document N, free states seem...

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... to this violent affair, and it repealed part of the Missouri Compromise that said that any territory above the line 36 degrees 30 minutes had to enter as a free state. Abraham Lincoln stated in a speech that this act only enabled slavery to continue to increase, and he felt that the spread of slavery had to be put to an end (Document E). An ... they would not touch slavery where it already exists but they were strongly opposed to any extension of slavery; therefore, they were against popular sovereignty. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran as the Republican candidate for presid...

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... there would be no compromise to settle it, instead civil war would come. After all these hostile compromises and westward expansion in 1860 there was a general election where Abraham Lincoln was elected into power. Lincoln was not an abolitionist but believed that, "All men should have equal rights" and not just white men. He wanted to halt the spread of slavery but not ... a moderator but to the southerners he was an evil figure that became a sign that the union was to become radicalized. Just after the election of Lincoln South Carolina, followed by six other Southern states, took ste...

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... title of "Bleeding Kansas". Because of this the issue of slavery was brought back attention between the North and South. The final straw for the South was the election of Abraham Lincoln who, despite his protestations to the contrary, could not convince the South that he was not a firebrand abolitionist. Secession was the first item on the agenda for South Carolina's legislature ... after the election of Lincoln. Because the North was more populated than the South and had more electoral votes to gain, Lincoln was able to win the election. The Carolinians were enraged by this saying that...

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... the Northerners adapted point of view, he adjudges their claim and refers to the irony of the situation as strangely beneficial to the Northerners case. A little over two months later, Abraham Lincoln declared that the secessionists (including Davis) had "invented an ingenious sophism" to further their argument. This sophism, or devious and untrue statement, revolved around the idea that the supreme powers ... of the Union lay in the state rather than the federal government. Buchanan affirmed Lincoln's assessment of the Southern position when, in 1860, he sneakily justified the Southern...

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... seemed like a feasible plan, it had weaknesses. One of which was its ambiguity; when exactly would these states have to render a decision on their position on slavery? For one, President Abraham Lincoln (Congressman at the time) disapproved of popular sovereignty. "I would pound Judge Douglas with my own interrogatories, endeavoring to put him on the defensive by exposing all his vague, contradictory, and ... ...

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... and religious ideals in its support of slavery, and some even advocated disunion(Doc. E). The confusion over slavery stemmed from a larger confusion over independent state rights, which some Northerners, like Abraham Lincoln, believed didn't exist at all. On the other hand, southerners believed that the constitution supported slavery. This could be seen in the Democratic platform of 1960 which specifically stated that ... ...

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