Abraham Lincoln,because it underrated the gains made by the 1860 election
By considering the Crittenden Compromise - but rejected it because it would have allowed some new slave-states.
A last attempt to avert war. Lincoln rejected it because it could have allowed some extension of slavery.
He proposed the Great Compromise.
The Great Compromise
The Missouri Compromise itself (1820). Also the very last compromise attempted before the outbreak of war (Crittenden) proposed that the Missouri Line could be re-established and extended all the way to the Pacific. It was this compromise that Lincoln rejected, because it could have allowed some extension of slavery.
A new compromise was put forward, but Lincoln rejected it because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Effectively. They did try a last compromise, but Lincoln rejected it because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Lincoln rejected it because it could have allowed some extension of slavery.
The Crittenden Compromise
The Crittenden Compromise. Lincoln rejected it because it could have allowed some extension of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln, because it underact the gains made by the 1860 election
Abraham Lincoln,because it underrated the gains made by the 1860 election
He didn't offer them any. When Lincoln was newly-elected, he was presented with the last-minute Crittenden Compromise, which he rejected because it would have allowed slavery in some of the new Western territories.
He rejected the final compromise because it would have allowed some new slave-states.
When Lincoln rejected the last compromise, because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Secession of South Carolina. New compromise rejected by Lincoln. Six more states join the Confederacy.