Abraham Lincoln's Opinion On Slavery In The United States

In the United States 1800s there were two sides, the North and the South. Both shared an opinion on slavery. Northerners disliked, and wanted to rid the country of slavery. While the Southerners wanted slaves, and thought the country should stay the same. During the election of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis the South began to worry, for if Lincoln was elected his anti-slave ideas would come into play. On November 6, 1860 Lincoln became the new President with 40% of votes and the prelude to the Civil War began. The Union had a bigger population than the Confederates, and now the new President of the United States. This threatened the South’s way of living because the most important person in the country was on the opposing side, and would