Lincoln's Policies and the Civil War
11th Grade · Social Studies · 45 min
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Learning Objective
I can analyze how Lincoln's key policies and actions influenced the course of the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln ran on a free soil platform in the election of 1860, which meant he wanted to prevent the spread of slavery into new territories.
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The Democratic party was divided between a northern faction that supported popular sovereignty and a southern faction that wanted slavery in new territories protected by a federal slave code.
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After Lincoln won the election of 1860 without any Southern electoral votes, South Carolina seceded from the Union, followed by six more states within six weeks.
