gibby08;431975 wrote:Ok
Before he was elected....we knew a civil war was coming.
We didn't know ANYTHING Bush did was coming
We didn't KNOW it was coming, the election of Lincoln pushed the South over the edge. If Lincoln hadn't been elected, there probably wouldn't have been a Civil War in 1861. That's not to say that the Civil War would have never happened since Washington was headed towards abolition anyways, but the political stance of Lincoln set secession in motion.