Plus you can generally get the same deals online while sitting in bed and eating a leftover Thanksgiving turkey sandwich . <| sep |> BONUS LIGHTNING ROUND NOW <| sep |> Even for this kind of incident ? <| sep |> Wait what ? Secession occurred after Lincoln was elected because of the Southern fear that Lincoln would abolish the institution . Lincoln had stated that he wouldn ' t interfere with existing slave states , but that he would seek to prevent new states from becoming slave states . Southern states didn ' t like this stance either as it made the elimination of slavery inevitable as slave states power was diluted with the creation of each new state . There had to be a legal basis for succession so the Southern states claimed their states ' rights had been infringed upon . After war broke out there was little incentive for Lincoln to allow Southern states to retain their slaves since the worse had pretty much occurred so the Emancipation Proclamation was issued DURING the Civil War . Edit the 2012 movie Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis has a pretty good and historically accurate portrayal of Lincoln ' s political battle to get the Em . Proc . a wartime treaty ratified into the 13 th amendment .