In general, southerners didn't like Lincoln long before the 1860 election. As a member of the Free Soil Party(Before it later became a republican party) Lincoln argued against expanding slavery into any of the new territories.
Thats why in 1860, Lincoln's name did not appear on the ballot in ten southern states.
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I would say they were able to do so because they had an abundance of coal.
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NATO, or the North American Treaty Organization, was formed in 1949. It was the policy created as a result of the expansion plans of the Soviet Union. It's main goal was to protect countries from the countries of the "Steel Curtain."