Because even as Google cuts ties with ALEC, it continues to give large sums to climate change deniers in Congress -- nearly $700k since 2008, as chronicled in Forecast the Facts' recent Disrupt Denial report. More than anyone, it is the deniers in Congress who are holding our country back from acting on climate change.
Answer by TxRose555. Confidence votes 43. The Southerners knew that the North or the Union wanted to abolish slavery. With the growing friction between the South and the North, they threatened to secede if a Republican became president, which happened when Aberham Lincoln became president.The Southerners feared that their rich southern way of life would end.ith the growing friction between the South and the North, they threatened to secede if a Republican became president, which happened when Aberham Lincoln became president. The Southerners feared that their rich southern way of life would end.
Soon after Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861 the southern states felt that he would attempt to abolish slavery. They decided to seceded from the country, an act which caused the American Civil War. During the war Lincoln threatened to free all the slaves from any state that did not return to the Union.any states outlawed the practice and slaves attempted to escape to these locations. The issue came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery, was elected President in 1860.