The Republicans selected Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate even though a)he had no significant political backgroun
d. b)he had supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act. c)he had favored the extension of slavery into the West. d)he did not plan to end slavery where it already existed.
The Republicans selected Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate even though "<span>d)he did not plan to end slavery where it already existed". This is because the Republicans knew that the most important issue at the time was preserving the Union.</span>
As Communism<span> in the Soviet Union and </span>Eastern Europe <span>began to collapse due to the revolutions taking place, pressure mounted on the </span>East<span> German authorities to open the Berlin border to the west. Thousands of Germans were escaping to the west through Hungary and the GDR was powerless to stop them.</span>
