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firm and inflexible

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interconnected system

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to control

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Shane Brown, Declan Harris, Xandria Smith, Connor Betts, Nevaeh Redd- Manulat

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Lincoln didn't give up on the fact that he wanted the Country to be one. He didn't want the Union to split into two parts. Which led up to the Civil war.

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Lincoln said that slavery was allowed anywhere south of 36 30'. The Republicans and the Southerns both said a firm NO to the plan.

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The people that were running for president were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckenridge, Stepthen A. Doglas and John Bell. John Bell was elected candidate and Abraham Lincoln was elected president.

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When the south had split away from the Union, the North was happy because they believed that slavery shouldn't be a thing.

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Before Lincoln was elected president the Republicans said the South could still have slavery. The southerns thought that after the election that the Republicans weren't going to keep their word. Because of that, on December 20, 1860, South Carolina broke away from the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln was nominated by Republicans to be our 16th president. He believed it was wrong for African American Slaves to even be slaves, because they were treated bad, which is why he abolished it.. He had 4 kids named Robert T. Lincoln, William W. Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, and  Edward B. Lincoln.

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The Confederate states were Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia. The reason they called themselves the Confederate States because they believed that they were allowed to secede because of states rights. That means rights and power and that they are independent of the federal government, and believed state rights were more powerful than the federal government.