... third thought slavery could and should expand and that it was good and needed; the other half thought that it should not expand and President Lincoln thought slavery was a malignancy that should be contained. (Hume, Video Lectures 3 & 6) Considering the timing of the conflict in the theory ... ] want to invade or subjugate! We would only be too grateful to be left alone. (Linden and Pressly, pp. 5-7) South Carolina seceded, because Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was voted into office. The Republican Party threatened the South's expansionism and therefore Southerners felt that they had no...

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... to be so joined (Gallagher 3)". So it should not have been that big a surprise to the government when secession talk began again when Abraham Lincoln first started his run for the Presidency. He was a man that had most of the country confused. He claimed that he was against ... slavery but he also stated that he wasn't completely opposed to it. In the "Lincoln debate with Stephen Douglas in 1858, proclaimed, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it ... in the north really believed the south would secede. "The slavery q...

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... slavery based on popular sovereignty. Eventually, Kansas and Nebraska became slave states even though the Missouri Compromise had prevented this from happening since 1820. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. This meant, " all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free" (Miller 1). Even though the document stated the slaves would be freed, it was ... ...

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