A letter to the editor is a statement of your opinion on an issue about which you feel strongly. Choose the event that you believe pulled the nation furthest apart in the mid-1800s. Write a letter to the editor about that event. Your letter should be written from the time period of your event and should:

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Hamza Benjamin

12 October, 14:55

A letter to the editor is a statement of your opinion on an issue about which you feel strongly. Choose the event that you believe pulled the nation furthest apart in the mid-1800s. Write a letter to the editor about that event. Your letter should be written from the time period of your event and should:

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Beau Berry · Answer 1

The US elections of 1860, one year before the civil war.

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Letter to the editor,

Dear sir,

Never before in the history of this once proud and united country have elections divided this country in two. As the Democratic Party's disagreement over the oficial party policy on slavery very clearly shows (with a Southern Democratic candidate and a 'normal' Democratic one), the deeply felt ideological split between the Northern and the Southern States has now, although Abraham Lincoln is chosen as the President, become a fact. This means that we, the United States of America, are no longer United.