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Half of America did not believe slavery should be abolished. So one could say, half of the United States were against Lincoln.
Booth and his group planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
By most accounts, Abraham Lincoln was not religious, although he was certainly from a Protestant Christian background. But there is little evidence that he attended any church regularly for much of his life. However, Presbyterian sources say that in 1850, after the Lincolns’ son Eddie died, the family was comforted by the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield; Pastor James Smith became a friend and support to Mrs. Lincoln, who did join that church, and at certain times, Mr. Lincoln went with her to services at the First Presbyterian Church.
The first states seceded when Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Officially, Abraham Lincoln believed that all new states admitted to the Union should be free states. Although Lincoln was viewed as a moderate in the North, he was considered an extremist in the South. Southerners feared that Lincoln would not allow slavery to continue at all, even though Lincoln did not espouse this as his official position. South Carolina was the first state to secede, declaring itself independent from the Union.
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