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Many in the Southern states strongly resisted the new laws passed by Lincoln and

Congress. Describe (don't just list) two ways they sought to sabotage these laws and
maintain superiority over freed blacks.

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They actually tried to avoid him being elected entirely. Through almost every ballot box in the southern states, his name wasn’t even on the ballot for voting.
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