CAS HI 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emancipation Proclamation, Nullification Crisis
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Abraham lincoln did not want to become a war president. Civil war was the most consequential war between the napoleonic wars and world war. Lincoln was not an abolitionist- did not support immediate abolition of slavery, as supported by evangelicalists in large evangelical cities such as boston and new. Lincoln feared that a civil war would be an even greater evil than slavery. Although not an abolitionist, lincoln detested the slave trade and the institution of slavery. Fire-eaters believed that slavery must be ended immediately. Lincoln wanted to block new slave states from joining the union, and over time, slavery would go extinct when competing against the industrialized north and west free labor system. Slavery exacerbated other differences between the regions, it was the fundamental cause of the war. Secondary cause was a constitutional crisis where slavery was papered over in the constitution in the founding of the us, missouri compromise, and nullification crisis.
