The 13th Amendment was necessary because the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in January of 1863, did not end slavery entirely; those enslaved in border states had not been freed. ... The 13th Amendment forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories
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The main way in which the presidential election of 1912 was different from previous presidential elections is that a party was created (the Progressive Party) purely for the purpose of electing a candidate (Roosevelt).
Sectionalism refers to placing local interests above those of the nation. As the states started putting their own values before those of others the hostility grew in the years preceding the civil war. It was the slavery that divided the North and the South a led to the growth of the sectionalism.
