Lincoln, Grant, and the 1864 Election
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According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the people living in the Kansas and Nebraska territories could decide whether Kansas and Nebraska entered the Union as slave states or free states. This was also known as popular sovreignty. Lincoln opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he believed that Congress had already prohibited slavery from these territories.
Lincoln saw this, and the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, as steps toward the nationalism of slavery.
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