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Abraham Lincoln completely opposed the spread of slavery to western territories.
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Abraham Lincoln completely opposed the spread of slavery to western territories.
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In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party's nominee for the Illinois senate seat occupied by nationally known Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln's position on slavery was that it was wrong. Knowing that slavery was strongly supported in the southern states where it existed, Lincoln was among the many people in the US, who believed that slavery should not be extended to the US Western territories.
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John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln because he was strongly opposed of what he believed in. He was enraged at how the Civil War turned out.