Public opinion, an aggregate of the individual views, attitudes, and beliefs about a particular topic, expressed by a significant proportion of a community.
Slave codes are state laws established to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners
Explanation:
The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
Any time a president dies in office, the future is uncertain. Nobody knows what his successor will do. In Lincoln's case, the future of slavery was in question, as well as the handling of the postwar confederacy