Abraham Lincoln was most popular in the Northern states. The states he won were anti-slavery. The candidate who won the electoral votes in the south was Jefferson Davis.
He wanted it to be used against Japan.
You will have multiple answers, the following are:
1. Historians with different perspectives
2. Historians with different points of view
3. Historians with varying personal biases
4. Historians with different interests of cause and effect
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The idea was whether americans had a fundamental right to privacy