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Intro


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=﻿Civil War=

The major proble in the united states during the 1860's was slavery. Abraham Lincoln was one who saw slavery as morallly wrong and didn't want it to spread to the western territories. Lincoln assured that he didn't want to remove slavery from the southern states that it already existed in but the southerners saw lincoln as a threat to their culture and society. The Democratic party split up into the southern and northern Democratics. The Nothern Democrats nominated Stephan Douglas and the Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckridge.