Abraham Lincoln Sectionalism

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Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was probably best known for being the president of the Civil War but Lincoln played another big role as he also helped fuel the Civil War. He helped get this war started by speeking against slavery. Lincoln said slavery shouldn’t be abolished but excluded the territories. Because of what lincoln said this put southerners in a state of fear because if he were to win his election and slavery would be excluded from the territories that would mean that no new slave states could be added thus getting rid of slavery as a whole. Thanks to sectionalism Lincoln won his election with 180 electoral vote and 40 percent popular vote, and it was sectionalsim that helped Lincoln because he earned mostlty northern votes because