He ran a campaign against slavery. He came and expressed its support to ' followers of 'States rights' of the South. However, owners of plantations and slave labor supporters were convinced that Lincoln would cause the disintegration of economic fiber of the nation. HThey tried to convert the United Kingdom and France against the Union, but only managed to trigger much higher than theisr European cotton supplier development and catapult theisr own economic demise and then to hampered recovery efforts.
The leaders on both sides of the conflict worked to dispel sectional tensions rather than exploded them. The compromise of 1820 would allow possibly the state of Missouri, where slavery was legal, in the Union, only if the Maine, a free territory where the practice was illegal, could join to, as well. HThe commitment of 1850 had a target similar as they tried to include views andfrom both sides of the spectrum,; the owners of slaves and their fervent opposition, in the Congress. Nevertheless, several provisions were still in place that it hindersed these combined efforts and had improvpened still further the gap between the two halves. Abraham Lincoln was re-elected at the end of the war, showing which side bent scales, but he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a supporter of the South, in that infamous night Theatrer night shock. American politics were thrown into chaos.