Lincoln Will Abolish Slavery

President Abraham Lincoln took office on November 6, 1860, three months later eleven states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America. Lincoln wanted to eradicate slavery and issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He knew it would be hard to unite the north and south, due to southern reliance on slavery in the cotton fields. Confederates were fully aware of President Lincoln’s plan to abolish slavery

In 1860 a new president was going to be elected to the US. The newly elected president would have to deal with the issues of slavery and what to do with the west. The Democratic Party split into 3 groups and was running against Republican Nominee Abraham Lincoln. The Democratic Convention adjourned without nominating anyone. Different elements of the Democratic Party then chose their own candidates John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, who represented the Deep South Democrats, and Stephen A. Douglas, who represented the Northern and border-state Democrats. The Constitutional Union Party, comprised of former Whigs and other factions, nominated John Bell of Tennessee as its candidate. Each group had their own theories on how to change the country and avoid war. On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election. He received 1,866,452 popular votes and 180 electoral votes in the 17 of the 33 states. He did not win one southern state in the election of 1860 and wasn’t even on the ballet in the southern states. The reason that Lincoln had some many electoral votes was because he won all the northern states, which had higher populations than the southern states. In response on December 20, 1860 South Carolina declared that they would secede from the US. This happened 3 months after Lincoln was elected president the first real actions of the south separating from the north happened. They were seceding because a geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all

The southern states secession from the union occurred in 1860 to1861, and the confederate states of America was formed. The main reason for the southern states feeling the need to leave was the issue of slavery. Slavery and the right to secession were two of the biggest issues the Democratic party made sure to defend. The attempts at compromise by the south did not involve giving up slavery. Once the southern states saw no other options and seceded they issued reasons of secession and slavery was the main point in all of them.

The union vs. states rights New territories were being settled. The South wanted new territories to be admitted to the Union as Slave states. This was mainly to prevent the slaves from escaping to the free territories. However, the North believed that those new territories remain free. States Rights was the idea that these territories have the right to vote whether to be free or slave. Lincoln was elected president November 6,1860, whom had declared” Government cannot endure permanently half free and half slave. South Carolina immediately removed from the Union along with six other states to dorm the Confederate States of America(CSA). The South feared that Lincoln would free the slaves and take away their economy and way of life.A moral issue In the nineteenth century slavery was not a moral issue, but more of an economic issue first and a moral issue second. This was mainly because the South’s economic system was based solely on cotton which was produced by the slaves. If the slaves were taken away that would immediately bring the collapse of its socio- economic system. The whole concept of America becoming a country was based on all men being created equally, yet they allowed slavery because it was a major part of the economy.In conclusion Slaves were eventually free at the end of the Civil War with the ratifying of the Thirteenth amendment of the constitution. This was first passed December 6, 1865 later being ratified to

The Confederate States decided to secede from the United States in 1860 starting with South Carolina and was followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama. Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas about 2 months later in 1861. The South justified seceding from the Union because the Northern states were failing to do what was required of them, some states were elevating free blacks and using their votes to support anti-slavery policies, and the Republican Party was planning to wage war on slavery upon taking office.

The south realized that they were losing governmental power and wanted to secede. The south was also afraid that the northern government would abolish slavery in the south. When the states declared seceding was constitutional, Lincoln disagreed.They claimed that they joined the union voluntarily, so they should be able to leave it voluntarily. However, in Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address on March 4, 1861, he made it a point that seceding was unconstitutional. He claimed, “No proper government ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.” Finally, in 1861, eleven states formed to create the Confederate States of America.

After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, politicians in the southern states wished to secede from the northern states. President Lincoln opposed slavery and hoped to get rid of this act in any state that practiced it. The southern states viewed Lincoln’s vision as a threat to those states who supported slavery and they believed that having an anti-slavery president would endanger the states in many ways. For this reason, South Carolina became the first to secede six weeks after Lincoln became president and later on more states to follow the secession (lecture). The states who seceded became known as the Confederate states and the conflict resulted in the civil war which lasted from 1861 to 1865 (lecture). The secession all falls back to the disagreement between the North and the South’s different views on slavery based on three different factors which were geographic positioning, economic power and man power.

In the United States during 1860 at the time of Abraham Lincoln’s election, seven states decided to succeed because Lincoln was anti-slavery and slavery is what the South thrived on while the north focused on manufacturing and industrial work. The seven southern states that succeeded from the nation(South Carolina, North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi) became the Confederate States of America. It grew from seven to eleven states when the first shots were fired in the Civil War at Fort Sumter when the Confederates lead an attack. At the end of the war, when the last Confederate army surrendered, the Confederate States had to sign a proclamation before rejoining the Union. Slavery wasn’t abolished until 1865 at the end of the war when the 13th amendment was put into place. At the end of the war a approximately 620,000 casualties were recorded and millions of injuries. Most injuries led to amputations.

Thus began the four-year civil war. In succession, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas joined the Confederacy. South Carolina long the hotbed of southern separatism, seceded first on December 20, 1860. By the time Lincoln took office, six other southern states- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas had withdrawn from the Union. In 1861, representatives of the seven succeeded met at Alabama and formed a new nation.

The secession of the South began when South Carolina declared they were no longer part of the Union. South Carolina disagreed with the fact of them ever becoming part of the United States in the start, However, according to Dan Bryan, South Carolina was forced to. It was also went on to say that any chance, like the election of Abraham Lincoln. That South Carolina had to secede was going to be taken. November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected as president, subsequently South Carolina seceded a month later as promised.

Essay 5: The American Revolutionary War and the Civil War The American Revolutionary War and the Civil War both had colossal effects on the American landscape and on society – both were fought for the sake of liberty and freedom, and both helped realize the purposes and goals of the young United States. Yet, it was the Civil War that drastically changed the cultural and social order of the United States. When the delegates of the Constitutional Convention met at Philadelphia and debated extensively about the Constitution and the jobs and missions of the new federal government, the issue of slavery did arise – and there was much discussion concerning its dissolution.

When Abraham Lincoln was elected, seven states starting with South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the Union and formed Confederate States of America (P.397), and soon after, four more states including: Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them (P.400). The Confederate States were mainly slave states that perceived Lincoln as a threat to the southern institution and its foundation; slavery. Although Lincoln had an anti-slavery position, which means that he was opposed the idea that slavery spreads into new territories, not an abolitionist, the Confederate States dreaded that they might lose their power in their territories (P.397). President Lincoln rejected the right of

Immediately after taking office, the votes were increasing among Southerner s who wanted now to separate the confederation. To The Union, the reception of Lincoln was even more important than the abolition of slavery. Lincoln did not want war with the South, and told them that the government would not attack. But if they were to solve his debt by his oath of office, a division, if necessary, would be prevented by militarily force. Jefferson Davis, Lincolns’ opponent, was the leader of the southern states and called himself president of the Confederate States of America. The southern states, also called "Confederate", would not take any part in further negotiations. On April 12, 1861 Confederate troops began with attacks on facilities of the

They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes” (South). This quote shows how the South felt as an anti-slavery Republican became the President with the goal of ending slavery in his mind. This succession is followed by Mississippi on January 9th of 1861, Florida on January 10th, and Alabama on January 11th. On January 19th, of the same year, Georgia declared Succession stating "For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery”. This is followed by Louisiana on January 26th, and Texas on February 23rd stating “They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States"

Before Lincoln took office, several states from the south created the Confederacy on February of 1861, and later on, four more states left to join them as well. They believed that the federal government was a servant of the states, and whatever rights the federal level did not have, it belonged to the states. This was because of how the Constitution failed to mention anything about slavery, and as a result, the dissenters believed that the states had the power to decide whether or not to allow it. Congress delayed the separation by enacting acts that would comprise with the pro-slave and anti-slave parties, but they could not stop the movement entirely (Dwight Lowell Dumond 1963).