THE MAKING OF A NATION #096 - Abraham Lincoln, Part 1.pdfVIP

THE MAKING OF A NATION #96 - Abraham Lincoln, Part 1 By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: January 6, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English. (MUSIC) By February first, eighteen-sixty-one, seven southern states had withdrawn from the United States of America. They created their own independent nation, the Confederate States of America. The south seceded because a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, had been elected president. Southerners believed Lincoln would support a constitutional ban on slavery. They were afraid their way of life was about to end. Im