The Gettysburg Address
In Our Time: History
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Civil War
Civil war's essentially a war about slavery er. And it's the war that has been a long time. We can look back 30, forty years with conflicts between southern states that generally owned slaves and their economy was entirely based uron slavery. Two northern states which had generally got rid of slavery by the mid of the middle of the nineteenth century. But it all comes to a head with the election of abraham lincoln in 18 60. Because for the very first time, a president is elected purely on northern votes,. None of the southern states vote for lincoln. If you're a southern state, then you think there's going to be northerners dominating the presidency from now on
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