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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.

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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.

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Linclon said he emerged in the Civil War to unite the country again, his second reason was to slowly end slavery...

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