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Lincoln would not allow the creation of any new slave states. So the South felt they would always be outvoted in Congress.

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Because he had been elected on a ticket of no new slave-states. So the South was doomed to be outvoted in Congress, and new laws would tend to favour the North.

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Abraham Lincoln was the Union President during the civil war. The whole of the Civil War was a fight over allowing slavery or not. Lincoln wanted slavery to end and later made that happen.

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