Explain the connection between the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the start of the Civil War, using evidence from the text in your answer

text: THE ELECTION OF 1860
by USHistory. org

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

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