... , with the secession of southern states, he was propelled to piecing the country back together with war. Lincoln had tolerated the existence of slavery where it had remained legal; however, the dissension over slavery between the north and the south had caused the fragmentation of the Union. In order to win over the northern states and keep them satisfied, Lincoln had admitted that he'd end ... of the Civil War. The south ignorantly believed that the Constitution had no longer protected their "happiness and property," therefore they had waged war against the north. In the beginning of th...

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