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The election of Abraham Lincoln as the new president, was to many Southerners a disaster. Their recourse was to declare a secession from the US and form a new nation called the Confederate States of America. Southerners believed that with Lincoln as president, he would do all he could to end slavery. This was their belief despite Lincoln's moderate view that he would not interfere with slavery where it already existed.

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