The south states did not like Abraham Lincoln. Abraham acted against slavery and the southern states were mainly based on slavery. This is when the southern states started to break from the United States. This is how the southern states reacted to the election of Abraham Lincoln.
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In this battle the patriots crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, in a successful surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries.
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