I've never heard that one.
But they still call it the 'War of Northern Aggression'
When US President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to help end the Southern rebellion, four more Southern states joined the Confederacy. These were the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee. The Confederacy now was composed of eleven states.
The Rebellion.
The rebellion that sent a wake up call through the country stating that the government was not working was known as Shay's Rebellion.
Northerners rallied to President Lincoln's call to end the rebellion when Fort Sumter was attacked and captured by Confederate forces. Up until that point, there was no huge public protest regarding the secession of the South by the North. The attack and then the surrender of Fort Sumter caused many men in the North to be available to join the military effort to end the Southern rebellion.
A rebellion
To most people living in the US at the time, the Civil War as we know it today, was called the "war of rebellion.
US President Lincoln had declared the Southern "rebellion" a threat to the Union and the US Constitution. His first step to weaken this "outlaw government" was to call up volunteers to use force to end it. He soon after understood that he had a major crisis on hand and mobilized more troops in his address to Congress in July of 1861. The First Battle of Bull Run and his call for a blockade of Southern ports were attempts to weaken the South. Aside from actual military action, his two Emancipation Proclamations were "war measures" attempting to create social chaos in the South. Also, the Confiscation Acts, were passed to confiscate Southern property that was in the way of the Union's efforts to end the Southern rebellion.
he liked people.
he liked people.
Bacon's rebellion
George Washington called out the troops to put down the whiskey rebellion.
Shays's Rebellion.