HIST315 Final: Lecture 1 - Civil War Great Note describing the introduction to the civil war from the first lecture. Very detailed and elaborate.
16 Oct 2011
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Eve of civil war 1861, us was still growing farmers in industrial east and west. More profound and epic struggle about what the united states was to become. Spark that started civil war: fort sumter, april 1861. Abraham lincoln was elected as president in november 1860, with. 2nd highest percentage in voter history in us. Lincoln won all northern states but no southern states, which triggered crisis of epic proportions. Southerners saw lincoln as an individual who would stop at nothing to eliminate slaves, restructure southern society. Never before in american history had society been so divided, hatred, etc. The birth of the confederate states of america (csa) february 1861. Governors in south carolina and mississippi called conventions to find a reason to solve the abolitionist lincoln won the election. By the end of 1860, the us was collapsing. South carolina was the first state that succeeded from the us; held huge rallies, celebrations, on december 20th 1860.
