Civil War 4

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States of America.
The North would not let them go. They felt that the south was a part of the union forever. At the time of this whole uproar within the country a lawyer named Abraham Lincoln had been climbing the political ladder. He who believed in what the north stood for. He was a Congressman and very anti slavery. He helped make up bills that to abolish slavery, but they never got passed . Many southerners did their best to keep Lincoln out of the White House. They feared what he might do as a President. That he would hurt the
south. He did not want to see them separate themselves. He said “No state upon it’s mere motion can lawfully get out of the union. I shall take care, as the constitution itself expressively enjoins upon me, that the law of the United States be faithfully executed in all of the states.”
Many southern delegates threatened to leave the Union if Lincoln was elected. Lincoln won the election, and became President of The United States. ...

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