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Don't Build Your Own Enemy - Jordan Peterson other people who are struggling arent your enemySlavery had been a controversial issue during the framing of the Constitutionbut the issue was left unsettled.
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The Southern states viewed this as a violation of their constitutional rights, and as the first step in a grander Republican plan to eventually abolish slavery. Douglas ' votes were distributed nationally and Constitutional Unionist John Bell 's votes centered in TennesseeKentuckyand Virginia.
The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a plurality of the popular votes and a majority of the electoral votes nationally; thus Lincoln was elected president. He was the first Republican Party candidate to win the presidency. The South was afmas, and before his inaugurationseven slave states with cotton -based economies declared secession and formed the Confederacy.
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The first six to declare secession had the highest proportions of slaves in their populations, with an average of 49 percent. Outgoing Democratic President James Buchanan and the incoming Republicans rejected secession as illegal.
Lincoln's March 4,inaugural address declared that his administration would not initiate a civil war. Speaking directly to the "Southern States", he attempted to calm their fears of any threats to slavery, reaffirming, "I have no purpose, directly or othet to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists.
I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. The Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on " King Cotton " that they would intervene, [22] but none did, and none recognized the new Confederate States of America.
While in the Western Theater the Union made significant permanent gains, in the Eastern Theaterthe conflict was inconclusive during — In SeptemberLincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamationwhich made ending slavery a war goal.
InRobert E. Lee 's Confederate incursion north ended at the Battle of Gettysburg. Western successes led to Ulysses S.]
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