Lincoln (who strongly believed in the idea of the nation and the Union) being re-elected in 1864 shows how the soldiers supported Lincolns beliefs and believed the war and its sacrifices meaningful and necessary. The South believed their culture and values were so different from those of the North that they couldn’t live in the same nation so they created (or tried to) their own nation. Jefferson Davis said the main aim of this war was to
Christopher Haire August 8, 2012 Hist 1301 Lincoln’s War In 1860, when Abraham Lincoln took over as the President of the United States, he could have only guessed that his actions and decisions would lead to a civil war just one year later. Many people believe that the civil war began over slavery. This is not entirely true as it may have been partly one reason; but even then Abraham Lincoln did not seek out to completely abolish slavery at once. Abraham Lincoln gets a lot of the blame for the start of the civil war but the truth is that the civil war was essentially inevitable. From the start of the civil war however, Lincoln played a big part in the Union’s success.
The real goals of Jacksonian Democrats were not to protect the constitution, but to abolish the Whig party, and to sustain state’s rights in a democracy, rather than a federal government. The Jacksonian Democrats were benefitting from political democracy more than they were guarding it. Andrew Jackson himself was raised in Tennessee, and before his presidency, was a natural war hawk, which is shown through the Battle of New Orleans. His war-like instincts managed to affect his choices throughout his presidency. This was shown by his threats to bring the military into South Carolina after the nullification on his Tariff of Abomination (Document F).
Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address guaranteed an immense nationwide prospect merely a month prior to his murder and the conclusion of the Civil War in America. The subsequent is an illustration of his unique sketch of his remarks the edits mirror the alterations created by the escritoire or secretary of State known as William Seward. Lincoln did not speak of happiness instead he spoke of sadness reflecting on the impacts of the civil war. Many individuals deem Lincoln’s dialogue more of a defense to his realistic draws to, to reconstitution. With the employment of harsh factors regarding civil war and slavery Lincoln was able to balance the rejection of triumphalism.
Great Britain, although officially neutral, had an elite opinion favouring the Confederacy and a public opinion favouring the United States. Concerned largely with Free Trade, diplomacy and the evasion of all-out war against America, Great Britain influenced and contributed to the outcome of the Civil War by utilising its powerful position to cleverly invest themselves in industrial aspects of the war, which proved beneficial to its relations with America as a whole. The reasons for the Civil War were copious and complex, but the motivation and direct cause of the secession revolved around the election of President Abraham Lincoln. With his inauguration came his policy to abolish slavery, which he
Mr. Lincoln’s election was a regional election, one in which he carried no southern states. Pollard says that,” if the North was prepared to act in a mass of its power was irresistible; and the election of Mr. Lincoln plainly showed that it was prepared so to act and to carry out a sectional design.” Pollard is basically saying that it was the North who created such a sectional rift between northern and southern states and this is why the South planned on seceding. Not because of attacks on the institution of slavery, but because of the underwhelming lack of electoral votes given to the South. As you can see, after the war, there was a split amongst the reasons for secession, but no matter how southern sympathizers coat it, the main cause is
Civil War, President Lincoln When President Lincoln was elected, the southern stated were very upset. The Republican Party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southern felt that there were no longer wanted in the Union. Several states seceded and created the Confederated States of America and elected Jefferson Davis as the provisional president. Lincoln proclaimed that his duty was to keep the Union. He had no intention of ending slavery where it existed, or taking back the Fugitive Act Law.
Ryan Brown US History II 2/16/12 Reconstruction The plans for reconstruction were not started until 1863 and they later ended in 1865. In 1865 the reconstruction period also began starting to put the plan into action. The reconstruction did not wait for the war to end. President Lincoln was in full belief that reconstruction was a matter of executive responsibility. Congress disagreed because they were afraid that Lincoln’s primary goal of national unity was set up as to fast of a program and this meant that congressed believed that Lincoln would return to the old southern ruling class to power.
Lincoln’s second inaugural address Lincoln took a very different approach to this speech than he did in a document such as the emancipation proclamation. Rather than taking a lawyers approach and using technical language, he decided to keep his address short and sweet. Lincoln used a good technique in his address when talking about the civil war. At the time of the speech the war was still active, but the Sherman’s march to sea had commenced and the north had all but won the war. During his address when speaking on the subject of the civil war, Lincoln, rather than placing the blame on the south of the north, places the blame on slavery, and says war was gods means of serving justice on the great injustice that was slavery.
“[no one can any longer] be deluded...that the Black Republican Party is a moderate party. It is in fact essentially a revolutionary party.” On the pretext of a revolution that the Democratic states would eventually procreate, the southerners had broken off from the rest of Union. Of course, this sent Lincoln into a blizzard of tumultuous worry about what his triumphant victory had done. Had his goal of a “united house under one flag” finally doomed to a mere dream, or was this just the start of something more monumental? The South wasn’t done though.