It is December of 1860 and Lincoln has just been elected.

It is December of 1860 and Lincoln has just been elected. Several states have already succeeded from the union and it seems that war is inevitable. You are a young journalist and work for a new paper on the eve of the Civil War. You are asked to write a 1500 editorial about the 1850’s and what lies ahead. You need to give your readers a snap shot of the main events of the last 10 years and how those events had led to the outbreak of the war.