Civil War First Inaugural Address Analysis
During the Civil War, 1861 through 1877, the North and South separated and both strengthened in different areas. The North increased in industrialized areas and the South increased with a countryside area. Due to these conflicts, the vicious Civil War was started. The sectional antagonism reduced slowly around the end of the 19th century, which makes the quote true.
The American Civil War was the greatest war in history. Three million fought and over six-hundred thousand people lost their lives, in this war, fighting for their own freedom. The Civil War was also known as the “War Between the States”. It created more tension between the union and the confederacy and created anger among the people of America. In the beginning of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln stated that he believed there were never opponents, and that there shouldn’t be any opposition among the people of the United States. In the First Inaugural Address, the speech was primarily addressed to the people of the South, and it was intended to succinctly state Lincoln’s intended policies and desires toward that section, where seven states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Abraham Lincoln stated, in his speech, that “Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property …show more content…
Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place who gave their lives that that nation might live. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation Under God shall have a new birth of
The American Civil War was the greatest war in history. Three million fought and over six-hundred thousand people lost their lives, in this war, fighting for their own freedom. The Civil War was also known as the “War Between the States”. It created more tension between the union and the confederacy and created anger among the people of America. In the beginning of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln stated that he believed there were never opponents, and that there shouldn’t be any opposition among the people of the United States. In the First Inaugural Address, the speech was primarily addressed to the people of the South, and it was intended to succinctly state Lincoln’s intended policies and desires toward that section, where seven states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Abraham Lincoln stated, in his speech, that “Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property …show more content…
Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place who gave their lives that that nation might live. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation Under God shall have a new birth of