and France by the confederate president‚ Jefferson Davis. Davis along with the Confederacy hoped to press the Confederacy’s agenda for diplomatic recognition and lobby for military and financial support‚ all in the name of cotton diplomacy. James Mason from Virginia and was to be a minister to Britain and John Slidell from Louisiana and was to be a minister to France. Sending Mason and Slidell on behalf of the Confederacy was no secret to the Union which kept a watchful eye on the situation. However
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The Anaconda plan‚ proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott‚ was strategically simplistic and of course tactically difficult to implement. It included controlling the Mississippi (which would split the Confederacy) and blockading the South to prevent exports (which would be used to pay for weapons). The main southern strategy was to defeat the attacking Union forces and force the northern states to negotiate. Later in the war‚ a slightly altered strategy
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Abolitionists are people who would protest the law of being able to own slaves. Most Southern people were in slavery‚ which set the two sides into an endless battle. The argument of slavery led to the South leaving the Union to form the Confederacy. The Union and the Confederacy disagreed on many important political topics that led to the civil war. The south countered the work of the abolitionist movement by being violent‚ destroying media‚ and justifying slavery.
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Some had tried to bring more awareness to the issues‚ but were quickly shut down. Due to this‚ many tried to ignore its existence. But in 1860‚ that all changed. The United State was split in half. The Union‚ which consisted of the north‚ and the Confederacy‚ which consisted of the south. A fine line was drawn and battles began. Many reasons were thought to be the cause of the civil war. Few thought it was only about states rights‚ but it was slavery that sparked it all. The Lincoln’s opinions on the
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and troop count. Although some information given by the slaves may have been elaborated‚ the significant assistance slaves provided the Union did not go unnoticed. Abolitionists were using this narrative as a call to arms. They argued that if the Confederacy was using slaves to their advantage‚ the Union should do the same. By freeing slaves‚ the Union would weaken the south by dismantling their treasured institution. Furthermore‚ many public figures urged
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Lincoln‚ slavery‚ and the civil war book states that “why should they do anything for us‚ if we will do nothing for them?" Page 159. Lincoln’s idea of freeing the slaves motivated the African Americans to fight for themselves against the union confederacy. Lincoln would use his war powers to free all the slaves in the rebellion states that were under the Union’s
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and joined the Confederacy. The formation of the CSA proved to be problematic for Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)." (Stock‚ 2) In the election for anti-slavery by Abraham Lincoln in 1809-1865‚ South Carolina and six other Southern states had come from the Union in January 1861 to form the Confederate States of America‚ aka CSA. When Lincoln refused to take out the army who attacked them‚ the American Civil War began. In a few short weeks more Southern states joined with the Confederacy. By doing this Robert
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addition‚ Lincoln did not believe in slavery. Even though he was still racist towards black‚ he saw the obvious immorality of the establishment. He fought for their freedom through his Emancipation Proclamation‚ which stated that all slaves in the Confederacy were free from their masters. Lincoln fought for the preservation of the Union‚ a symbol of equality and democracy. He would protect it at any cost. With that‚ he also freed the slaves in the United States‚ which supported the idea of democracy
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and loss of a president‚ Andrew Johnson was elected. Johnson was an Unionist and was hated‚ for his excessive use of his pardoning power‚ by the Radicals‚ state governments and moderate Republicans. Southerns would elect leaders that served the confederacy and that would instal “Black codes”‚ these codes would beat down African American’s civil rights and push them to being slaves again. From violences against African Americans‚ Yankees and Unionists‚ the 14 Amendment was produced. The Fourteenth
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significant and controversial periods in American history‚ in where Americans killed each other (about 600‚000 men died) and still‚ some of the past arguments on state’s rights are still argued today. The Civil War was a matter of south versus north‚ confederacy (Southern States) versus The Union (Northern States). Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were property‚ then they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress. Southerners argued that the slaves were human beings
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