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Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer, legislator and opponent of slavery, was elected president in November 1860âbut by the time of his inauguration in March 1861, seven Southern states had seceded, and the Civil War began a few weeks later.
(B) Frequent victories over Union armies. President Lincoln was reluctant to emancipate the slaves in the first year of the Civil War because. (A) He feared that freeing the slaves would bring England and France into the war. (B) Congress was opposed to emancipation. (C) He knew that a proclamation about slavery would only further alienate the South.