1864-1865: Andrew Johnson VIII. Political Party: Republican IX. Major Domestic Happenings A. Civil War begins (1860)-fought for 4 years, between the United States and the Confederacy. Although abolition was to be one of the major results of the Civil War, the war was fought for nationalistic reasons, not to destroy slavery.
In 1861 America got themselves into the most deadly war in history. The Civil War, also known as the war between states, was fought between the north and south. Eleven southern slave states declared there secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, better known as the Confederates. They fought against the Union, which was supported by all Free states and the five border slave states in the north. During the Presidential Election in 1860, the Republican Party which was led by Abraham Lincoln campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.
The Civil War started because of slavery, economy, and states’ rights. For four years between 1861 and 1865 the United States engaged in a civil war. The war burst upon the American landscape in the spring of 1861, climaxing decades of bitter wrangling and pitting two vast sections of a young and vigorous nation against each other. Northerners called it the War of the Rebellion, Southerners the War Between the States. We know it simply as the Civil War.
The twenty five remaining other states, in which slavery had been recently abolished, became known as the Union. The American Civil War started in 1861 and continued through 1864, finally ending in 1865. After four years of bloody, devastating warfare the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation. During the Civil War, the Union was led by recently elected President Abraham Lincoln and the Confederacy was led Jefferson Davis. In retrospect, there are multiple reasons for the South’s loss or for the North’s victory.
The years leading up to the Civil War are full of political and social events that fueled the differences between the northern States and the southern States. All the events leading up to the bloody war were significant; however, the following had the greatest impact on deciding the country’s future: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 which included the Fugitive Slave Act, The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, The Dred Scott decision of 1857, John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, and finally, Lincoln’s election to President in 1860. Of these political and social events, the most important one, which lead to the division of our country, was the Compromise of 1850. This act alone set the course and helped deeply divide the country over the issue of slavery. All the other events fueled the fire and eventually lead to the only war fought on American soil.
Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America during one of the most consequential periods in the American history, the Civil War. He was elected president in 1860, making him the first republican president ever. During his period of presidency, the Southern states of the USA seceded from the union as Lincoln and the rest of the northern states were against slavery. Six short weeks after he became president, the Northern states fought against the Southern states, who now called themselves the 'Confederacy', this was the start of the Civil War which lasted from 1861 until 1865. On January 1st, 1863 Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure, it proclaimed
He countered this by stating he will uphold the doctrine of states right. Most southerners distrusted him.. His victory in the election led to the secession of eleven southern states from the union leading to the formation of the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as its president. This was viewed by the US administrators as an act of treason. Hostilities were prompted in April of 1861 when the conferderationist attacked a US military installation at fort summer in South Carolina leading to Lincoln, who had been in office for only six weeks to call for each state to volunteer an army. He declared these acts of secession as illegal and asked Congress for 500,000 soldiers to crush what threatened to be an aggressive rebellion.
By 1968, however, over half a million US soldiers and marines were fighting in the jungles of South Vietnam and there had been thousands of US casualties. The Vietnam War turned into a major American defeat and helped change US policy in containing Communism. The United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. American leaders feared that Communist forces would gain control of Vietnam. After that, nation after nation might fall to Communism.
Effects of the Civil War: Physical, Economical, and Psychological Damages and the Increased Role of the Federal Government In four years of American history, a civil war took place between the United States and the Confederate States, or better known as the North and South of our supposed “united” country. During that time, many men died over the controversy of slaves, leaving physical, psychological, and economical damages, and a higher role for the federal government to fill. Within a time period of four years, a lot can happen, like a war can start and end, or slavery can be outlawed. Another possibility could be that out of a nation of 35 million, 620,000 men could die, like it did in the four years from 1861 to 1865. Out of those 620,000 that died, 364,000 were Northern men and 258,000 were Southern.
The southern states, who relied heavily on slavery for their labor, refused and conceded from the union to form the Confederacy. Over 600,000 Americans gave their lives in those four years of fierce and hallowed battles. At the end of the war, much of our nation stood