The both troops were ready. On April 10, 1861, as Major Anderson waited for additional men and supplies, the new Confederate Government directed Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter. Anderson refused. His soldier and laborers prepared to fight with the Confederate forces opened fire. Thirty-six hours later, a white flag waved and Major Anderson formally surrendered on April 13, also, left for New York.…
* South Carolina voted Dec 1860 to secede, by time Lincoln came to office six more states (Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, TX) seceded…
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglass, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell were the four candidates of the election. Lincoln had two years earlier beaten Douglass to the Senatorial seat, and now he tried to beat him again with the Presidential Election. The Democratic Party was split, so they decided on two cadidates which were Breckinridge and Douglass. The Constitutional Union chose Bell, and the Republicans had Lincoln. With his campaign revolving around westward expansion and abolition, Lincoln did not get very many supporters. The people of the country more so wanted Douglass. With only 40% of the entire country's votes Lincoln won the presidency. Douglass came in second with ~30%, Breckinridge ended third with ~20%, and Bell rounded out the four in las place with only about 13%. Lincoln, the sectional president, had not been elected for four days when South Carolina seceded. The blame rested on Buchanan's shoulders, for he was the president still until March 1861. This was ultimately the cause for disunion. During the election, or rather the time of campaigning, South Carolina had stated that if Lincoln was elected they would secede; and they went through with their word. Sectionalist tensions has risen to a peak and cracked under pressure. The Missouri Compromise was no longer available to be a scapegoat, and neither were the other political controversies. The Union's last leg to stand on was kicked out from under it. It would take several more months until the actual war started; however, by this point it is clearly inevitable. Political compromise was out of the question, and by then it was only a matter of time before the first shots were…
However, this Compromise was not successful. After President Abraham Lincoln ran and won the presidential election, there were more Republican votes than the Southern Democrats, the Northern Democrats, and the Constitutional Union (Doc. H). The votes that had been cast out and stated that Lincoln won by 180 votes in the electoral college. Breckinridge only had seventy-two electoral votes, Douglass only had twelve, and Bell had thirty-nine electoral votes. Southern states suddenly feared of Lincoln, and Southern states began to succeed or withdraw from the Union. The only way to solve this problem was to start a Civil War. Before this War, Kentucky had decided to become a free state which made the Confederate states even more angry. In April of 1865, the North had declared victory on the South of the Civil…
The election of Abraham Lincoln terrified the southern states. Southerners new that Lincoln favored abolition and he desired to rule against slavery in the western territories. There was a fear that Lincoln would eventually outlaw slavery for good. Therefore, the southern way of life would forever be changed. The southern states came together and decided the best solution would be to secede from the union.…
South Carolina voted to secede from the United States as a result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency. Lincoln had, over time, voiced strong objections to slavery, and his incoming administration was viewed as a threat to the right of the states to keep their institutions, particularly that of slavery, the business of the states. More states seceded, eleven in all, forming the Confederate States of America. The secession movement led to the Civil War.…
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the US. He was from Illinois and a member of the anti-slavery Republican Party. In December that same year, South Carolina, a slave state, seceded from the Union. Six more Southern states followed shortly after. The U. S. Civil War started in 1861 and that year Tennessee voters decided to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. Johnson traveled…
Today everyone says the reason the South left the Union was; Slavery. Slavery was not the only factor that led the South to secede. In fact, some of the wealthiest slaveholders opposed secession. They believed, for good reason, that slavery would actually be safer in the Union than out of it. Most people aren’t aware that, even as president, Lincoln supported a proposed constitutional amendment that would have guaranteed slavery’s continuation forever. Lincoln mentioned his support for this amendment in his first inaugural address. Another factor that led to the South seceding was the way the North Republicans and the way they voiced their feelings towards the south. I believe the North would have put up a protest towards the South, but nothing as big and bloody and unnecessary as what initially ended up happening between the states.…
Those who disagree with him and his point of view, joined the seceding states. Those who disagreed were the South. The south were devastated that Lincoln was the new president. They thought that the south had no voice in the national government (textbook). They were convinced that Lincoln and the congress are agreed on the topic of slavery ( textbook). Therefore, southern states came into conclusion that they didn't want to stay with a Republican president that is an abolitionist. However, Lincoln never stated that he didn't support slavery. People assumed that because of what he says in his speeches. Soon enough, southern states started seceding. South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union ( Packet Document 5). Later on, 7 other states such as Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas has seceded (Packet Document 5). Although, the national government state that all states are independent ( Packet Document 5). So all those states have the full right to secede and no one can tell them…
South Carolina had no other choice but to secede from the Union as they found this result to be unacceptable. Four months later, the people of six other states who elected Jefferson Davis ( Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana) followed South Carolina’s footsteps. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined the session. In total of eleven states seceded from the Union as an outcome of Lincoln’s…
Many believe that Lincoln was the main or only reason that the proposal was rejected. He was very convincing in explaining why it was a bad idea. He is the reason that the Republicans unanimously rejected the proposal (Document T). Similarly to his party members, Lincoln was very determined and unbending when it came to his views. (Document L) He was firmly against slavery and refused to compromise when it came to this issue. (Document S) Republicans saw that the secessionists did not see how bad slavery truly was and wanted to they wanted to prevent slavery from spreading further. (Document N) He said that slavery shall not be extended by any means under any circumstances. (Document C) In the election, Lincoln had the most electoral votes and the most popular votes, showing that the people (mainly the Northern Republicans) supported him and agreed with his views. (Document B) At the same time, Republicans believed that popular sovereignty was dangerous. (Document J)…
The Civil War left a great impact on the nation. President Lincoln stated that he had no intention of interfering with slavery but the south had no actual right to secede from the Union. When South Carolina was the first state to secede and other states quickly followed, Lincoln felt that he had to take matters into his own hands and enacted his power as both the Commander in Chief and the Chief Executive. We see in Document A that South Carolina felt differently about this issue. They felt that there isn't anything…
North Carolina was a member of the Confederacy. North Carolina played an important role in the Civil War they supplied a lot of soldiers, food, and supplies. Northcarolinahistory.org said that “Piedmont area produced crops used to feed the Confederate soldiers.” Even though North Carolina did not have many major battles, it supplied a lot essentials needed for the Civil War. According to Northcarolinahsitory.org, North Carolina provided over 133,000 men, more than any other state in the confederacy. North Carolina provided one sixth of the confederate soldiers (NorthCarolinahistory.org). Home life in North Carolina must have been weird with all of those people gone. For all the men that weren't fighting it must have been weird…
The Civil War was the most bloody war in American history, with the most American deaths of any conflict. It occurred when the southern states of the United States collectively succeeded from the Union, and formed a confederacy. These states seceded because they felt that their state rights, granted to them by the constitution, were being infringed upon. With newly invented weaponry and poor medical knowledge, the death rate of those involved in the war was extremely high. This pattern of advancing technology causing more deaths has been prevalent through all of time. However, with the introduction of nuclear weapons, and thus the total annihilation of the world, this precedent has hit its limit.…
Secession was a clearly a big issue certainly around the times of Lincoln’s presidency. Desperation to keep the Union together was cautiously argued by Lincoln in his first Inaugural speech, delivered on March 4th, 1861. President Lincoln was clearly against the idea of secession by any State.…