SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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he would abolish slavery
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he would stop the spread of slavery
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he would extend slavery
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he would avoid the issue of slavery
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The Rail Candidate": Lincoln’s 1860 candidacy is depicted as held up by the slavery issue-a slave on the left and party organization on the right.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln began his public career by claiming that he was “antislavery”–against slavery’s expansion, but not calling for immediate emancipation. However, the man who began as “antislavery” eventually issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in those states that were in rebellion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lincoln first publicly advocated for colonization in 1852, and in 1854 said that his first instinct would be “to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia” (the African state founded by the American Colonization Society in 1821).
Detailed explanation-4: -Further, while Lincoln opposed slavery, he held complex political and personal views on the institution and African Americans that changed over time.
Detailed explanation-5: -In principle, Lincoln approved of emancipation as a war measure, but he postponed executive action against slavery until he believed he had both the legal authority to do so and broader support from the American public.