Abraham Lincoln was concerned about the outlook of slavery if he was elected US President. He knew that slave holding States would fear his election. He assured slave holders in the South he had no plans for ending slavery where it already existed. In fact he believed that there was no Constitutional basis for outlawing slavery.
Slave holding States simply did not believe him. Lincoln's party, the Republican Party was against slavery.
In a manner of speaking the South wanted to form its own nation due to the fact that Lincoln was elected. Thus the grounds, for the most part, of the US Civil War.
Lincoln believed that he had the duty to protect Federal property. He also wanted the Union to remain intact. The firing upon US Sumter was the beginning of the Civil War.
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After the Civil War Lincoln was without a doubt proud of the union for what they had done.
It made Unionists angry.
Abraham Lincolns main goal at first was to keep the states together. But later slavery was included but no by choice. It just mixed in and was part of it till the end
The election of Lincoln as president.
Nobody really welcomed the civil war... There were things that led up to it like the slavery issue and Lincolns election. The main thing was Lincolns electoin because states in the south started to secced from the union.
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End of Civil War.
The Civil War.
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The American Civil War
Copperheads (Anti-war Democrats)
Blockading the Southern ports.
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The Gettysburg Address
To preserve the Union.
The Civil War.