The whites were afraid that Lincoln would abolish slavery, resulting in the economic collapse of the South which heavily relied on slavery and agriculture.
Abraham Lincoln is elected to 16th president of the United States over a deeply 40% of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates in 1860 Lincoln's won the party's presidential nomination and it had been publicly threatening secession if the Republicans gained the White House.
-Rise of Italian City States/Civic Pride - Cities want to look better than one another, a middle class davelops due to merchants making large sums of money
-New interest/need for new learning and technology
There was massive resistance by the states to the order to desegregate the schools in accordance with the Brown decision. Some states simply closed down all public schools instead of desegregating them.
