Question

What role did the Election of 1860 play in the outbreak of the Civil War?

Answer 1

Answer:

It confirmed that Southern states feared the election of Lincoln would bring about the end of slavery.

Explanation:

The Southern states believed that Lincoln would have ended slavery. However, prior to the war, Lincoln was actually not a staunch abolitionist, rather he was a free-lander, in which he only believed that slavery should not be able to spread westwards into the newly acquired territories. Lincoln only had a change of heart during the American Civil War.

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