Split History of the Battle of Fort Sumter

Split History of the Battle of Fort Sumter — page 5
these territories while antislavery groups wanted to stop its spread Congress came up with a number of compromises to try to satisfy both sides These included the policy of popular sovereignty where the population of a new territory or state would vote to determine whether it would be a slave state or a free state But these compromises were only temporary solutions to a more complex problem THE ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Republican Party was born in the 1850s It included groups that opposed slavery and its spread It also favored economic and political policies that benefited the North In 1860 the Republicans