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- Lincoln Elected
- President Lincoln
- The South Secedes
- Attempt at Compromise
- We The PeopleThe CONSTITUTIONNew amendments
- Lincoln won the election with 40% of the popular votes and won all of the northern states.
- The Confederacy
- People in the South feared the Republicans would not hold their promise of keeping slavery in the states and not the new territories.
- Reactions to Secession
- secede from the Union
- Many people wanted to preserve the Union with a series of amendments (that weren't passed) to save slavery south of the 36, 30-degree line.
- Presidential Responses
- (James Buchanan) ¨what am I going to do to stop this¨
- Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, And South Carolina had made their own government and country. The Confederate States of America.
- Many southerners welcomed secession. However, some were worried about the destruction of their beautiful country.
- Lincoln had won but was not yet elected. James Buchanan said that they had no right to secede. Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861.
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