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The first constitution in Kansas was the Lecompton Constitution. It was a proslavery constitution, which President Buchanan approved. However, the abolitionists argued and fought. Buchanan repealed his decision.
             The Election of 1860 was the South's final straw. They had been battered and beaten in all that they tried to do. When Lincoln was elected President, even though none of the Southern States supported him, the south seceded. .
             II. Lincoln.
             Lincoln was a major figure during the Civil War. Before the war, even before his election in 1860, he was a major politician. He was not a supporter of slavery, being brought up in Illinois, but was not a hardcore abolitionist either. He said that slavery was a moral evil, and that it should be stopped from spreading. He didn't want to stop slavery in the states that already had it. He said this when debating with Senator Stephen Douglas, "I am not nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way social and political equality of the white and black races." .
             Lincoln was a Republican. At that time, Republicans were mostly abolitionists, who were against slavery, and some people from the former American Party. The American Party was very discriminatory to immigrants, especially to Irish Catholic immigrants. .
             After the election of 1860, the South had rejected Abraham Lincoln as their president. So they seceded. Lincoln at first tried to not recognize the Confederacy as a country unto itself. But after Fort Sumter, Lincoln had to recognize them and start a war. .
             Lincoln was very involved in the war strategies, and in hiring his generals. He hired George McClellan after First Manassas; it was one of his mistakes. Lincoln complained that McClellan took no action and always planned, planned, planned. So Lincoln replaced him with Ulysses S. Grant. .
             During the Civil War, the northern Republicans took advantage of having a majority. They passed many new laws that still affect us today.


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