Why Was Abraham Lincoln The Most Unpopular

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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States. When he was elected eleven Southern states split off from the United States to form the Confederates. The Confederates knew that slavery, their main use of farming, would be taken from them. They proceeded to War with the North and it lasted 4 years. Lincoln was determined to uphold the Union and to turn the tides of the War by issuing the Emancipation proclamation which slaves in areas still in rebellion within 100 days would be free. This was his his most explosive, but also an unpopular act of his presidency. The Emancipation made thousands of Democrats revolt, dissident Democrats tried to throw him out of office, but the Emancipation kept foreign countries out of the War.