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By what year had all the southern states been reamitted to the union?
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By what year had all the southern states been readmitted to the union?
1871
What did southern states have to do before they could reenter the Union?
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
What was a theory used by the southern states in 1861 to justify separating from the Union?
They said the original United States had been formed voluntarily, and that the member-states were free to quit the Union if they wanted.
What was the northerners reason for fighting?
Primarily to keep the Union together and not let the States split. The Union (or the North) beleived that the Southern States did not have the right to leave the Union. That point of law has been debated for a long time.
What argument did president Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the southern states?
Lincoln reasoned that the union created by the Constitution must remain intact. While the southern states claimed they had the right to secede, and that might have been true, the Constitution did not allow them to join any league or confederacy besides the United States of America. Thus, he argued, the existence of a Confederacy was in direct violation of the US Constitution.
By what year had all the southern states been readmitted to the union?
1871
By what year had all the southern states been re - admitted to the union?
1871
What did southern states have to do before the could reenter the union?
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
What did southern states have to do before they could reenter the Union?
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
What was a theory used by the southern states in 1861 to justify separating from the Union?
They said the original United States had been formed voluntarily, and that the member-states were free to quit the Union if they wanted.
What was the northerners reason for fighting?
Primarily to keep the Union together and not let the States split. The Union (or the North) beleived that the Southern States did not have the right to leave the Union. That point of law has been debated for a long time.
What was the Union Government?
It was the United States government, to which Abraham Lincoln had been elected - minus the representatives of the Southern states that had broken away to form the Confederacy.
Why did Lincoln not free the slaves at the start of the war?
Because at the beginning, it was not an abolitionist war. Lincoln had been elected on a ticket of no new slave-states, and this is what caused the Southern states to secede from the Union.
What argument did president Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the southern states?
Lincoln reasoned that the union created by the Constitution must remain intact. While the southern states claimed they had the right to secede, and that might have been true, the Constitution did not allow them to join any league or confederacy besides the United States of America. Thus, he argued, the existence of a Confederacy was in direct violation of the US Constitution.
Who had been recently elected as President of the US whenthe southern states seceded?
who had been recently elected as president of the United States when the southern states seceded
Can you name two solutions that had been proposed to prevent the civil war?
A) These Southern n00bs could've just abolished slavery and quit it when they were told to, or B) The Union could've just let the Southern states secede
Why didn't the Union let the Southern states secede?
The people who opposed secession believed that a state could not leave the union without permission form the remaining states, which had neither been sought nor given. The people supporting secession believed that each state had the right to leave the Union without need of permission from other states.
