to make a homeland for freed slaves in Africa
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville -APEX
Second Bull Run (Manassas)
Chickamauga
Freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.
Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.
This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.
They seceded from the USA, because they knew that Lincoln would not allow any new slavestates.
They began to take steps to secede from the Union.
The limited supply of goods caused prices to rise.
The Compromise of 1850 APEX! >:D
The costs included over 700,000 dead and $8.2 billion in damages.
It showed their deep cultural and political differences
abolition
It was greatly helped when sherman captured atlanta
Congress voted to annex Texas