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What were the pro-slavery secssion states called?
The Confederate States of America
What where some attempts at compromise to avoid secssion and war?
First, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which managed to keep the situation balanced for thirty years, until the acquisition of vast new territories after the Mexican War. This required a new compromise, which was cobbled together rather desperately in 1850, and did not hold. In the absence of any better suggestions, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed that the people of each new state should be allowed to vote on whether it would be slave or free ('Popular sovereignty'). This suffered from a dangerous flaw. By allowing one state to vote at a time, it encouraged gangs of outlaws from both sides to descend on that state, to try to interfere with the ballot and terrorise local citizens. The first time it was tried, in Kansas, it led to serious bloodshed. Following the inflammatory verdict of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, declaring slavery to be legal in every state of the Union, the John Brown rebellion, and then Lincoln's election on a ticket of no new slave-states, war became inevitable. A last attempt at a compromise was presented to Lincoln, who rejected it because it could have allowed new slave-states. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated in March 1861, the Confederate States of America had been proclaimed in Montgomery, Alabama, and the first shots of the war were fired one month later.
What were the pro-slavery secssion states called?
The Confederate States of America
What date did A black republican whose minority sectional victory in a presidential election provokes southern secssion?
1860
What actions did Abraham Lincoln take to ensure that the border states would remain in union?
Abraham Lincoln suspended some constitutional rights and used his power to arrest people who supported secssion. In the end lincolns approach worked.
What where some attempts at compromise to avoid secssion and war?
First, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which managed to keep the situation balanced for thirty years, until the acquisition of vast new territories after the Mexican War. This required a new compromise, which was cobbled together rather desperately in 1850, and did not hold. In the absence of any better suggestions, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed that the people of each new state should be allowed to vote on whether it would be slave or free ('Popular sovereignty'). This suffered from a dangerous flaw. By allowing one state to vote at a time, it encouraged gangs of outlaws from both sides to descend on that state, to try to interfere with the ballot and terrorise local citizens. The first time it was tried, in Kansas, it led to serious bloodshed. Following the inflammatory verdict of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, declaring slavery to be legal in every state of the Union, the John Brown rebellion, and then Lincoln's election on a ticket of no new slave-states, war became inevitable. A last attempt at a compromise was presented to Lincoln, who rejected it because it could have allowed new slave-states. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated in March 1861, the Confederate States of America had been proclaimed in Montgomery, Alabama, and the first shots of the war were fired one month later.
What did president Lincoln view the secssion of the southern states as?
He felt it was the dissolution of the United States. He believed that states were not allowed to simply leave the Union just because there was a law or policy that they didn't like; if you can just leave on a whim, then it makes the whole thing meaningless. His views are neatly summed up in one of his most famous speeches, the Gettysburg Address, which was delivered a few months after the major Battle of Gettysburg: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
