With the election of abraham lincoln in 1860 as president came resentment from southern states, who felt lincoln represented the formation of an anti-slavery federal government. south carolina broke away from the united states soon after the election, and several other southern states followed in the breakaway. while waiting for lincoln to take office, president james buchanan refused to take serious action to stop the break-up of the united states. consider the following questions: what could buchanan have done to keep the union (the united states) together? could the fighting over slavery have been peacefully resolved? why or why not?

President James Buchannan tried hardly to avoid war beetwen North and South, but his political philosohy was antiquated and charged with sentimental and emotional attachments, so he failed trying to understand the moral disgust to slavery of Northen society. He showed favoritism and compromised his credibility with one part of the country. His decisions relyied on a group of advisers who confused him, he refused to accept Republicans opinions too, so he widened secession ways. Most authors think that Bhuchannan never tried to prevent the avalanche of events that led to war, he let South to take aggressive measures that made it inevitable.

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