It must have been a tense day as the newly elected President Lincoln stood to declare his first inaugural address. As Lincoln looked over the crowed in what was southern Washington D.C. he must have seen the tension, palpable and thick in the air. The controversy over this Northern elected president sparked the civil war, the very thing he tried to prevent in his address. In Skinner's riveting essay, new light is shed on that fateful event in American History.

Do you want to learn more about how the civil war began? Do you want to know who the south elected as president? Read Skinner's essay and discover for yourself!

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