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In the decade preceding Abraham Lincoln's election, the United States became increasingly divided along sectarian lines, over the issue of slavery. With the Republican Lincoln's election, Southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America, triggering the Civil War. Lincoln's reputation is, in large part, founded upon his leadership in the Civil War. The Civil War was a remarkably bloody conflict, and the location of Washington DC itself rendered it potentially vulnerable to Confederate attack.