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In the early stages of the US Civil War, it was clearly US President Lincoln's plan to keep the United States a whole nation and stop the Southern rebellion. Anti slavery abolitionists were concerned that early on Lincoln did not proclaim that his use of military force was to abolish slavery. Rather, Lincoln clearly had the goal of keeping the Union as one nation.
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What is a civil War term beginning with the letter a?
Abolitionists
How did the abolitionists affect South Carolina?
they sarted a war with them
Why did the Mexican abolitionists oppose war?
The abolitionists thought it was a bad deal. They thought it would strip them of their rights of holding slaves due to the annexation of territory. This created uncertainty for the abolitionists.
What was the region of the US that opposed war with Mexico?
Northern abolitionists opposed the Mexican American War.
Abolitionists in the pre-Civil War. Were most likely to support the?
Republicans
What people did not agree with the Mexican American War?
Northern abolitionists.
Why did the North consisder John Brown a martyr?
Most of them didn't. The Abolitionists did. But most Northerners were not Abolitionists, and were just exasperated that all of this was bringing war nearer.
Why did the US Mexico War cause anxiety for abolitionists?
All the land obtained from Mexico from this war was below the Mason-Dixon line. Abolitionists were fearful that some of this new territory would become slave states.
What percentage of Americans were ardent abolitionists prior to the Civil War?
five percent
What group who feared the spread of slavery opposed the Mexican American war?
abolitionists
Abolitionists in the pre-civil war period were most likely to support the?
Republicans
True or false in northern states dissenters called abolitionists spoke out against the war in the civil war?
true
