Because there was no agreement over whether the new Western territories should be admitted to the Union as slave-states or free soil.
Many compromises had been tried over a period of forty years, but all these had failed.
Actually, Lincoln did not start the Civil War. The Confederates (South) fired the first shot on Fort Sumter on April 12th, 1861. This effectively started the Civil War.
Linclon said he emerged in the Civil War to unite the country again, his second reason was to slowly end slavery...
The Gettysburg Address
End of Civil War.
freed the slaves, won the civil war
Lee surrendered in the civil war to Abraham lincolns hourse in china
she was a nurse and shw was abraham lincolns wife
President of the United States of America.
Kind of:one of the sons had to be in a war againest sickness, but failed:(
Abraham Lincolns main goal at first was to keep the states together. But later slavery was included but no by choice. It just mixed in and was part of it till the end
The American Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln is best known for the crucial role he played in the abolition of slavery in the United States. He also managed to keep the country unified during the Civil War.
President Lincoln is famous for leading the nation through the American Civil War, the most significant constitutional, moral, and political crisis.
The American civil war.