AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN
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Question
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The troops were ill-prepared and Lincoln wouldn’t allow a postponement.
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The troops were scared of the Confederacy and didn’t fight to the best of their abilities.
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The Union didn’t believe in what they were fighting for so they lost the battle on purpose.
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The Union troops were smaller and weaker than the Confederate army.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln’s plan, as they thought it too lenient toward the South. Radical Republicans believed that Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was not harsh enough because, from their point of view, the South was guilty of starting the war and deserved to be punished as such.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slavery, Lincoln stated, was the reason for the war: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. Not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest.
Detailed explanation-3: -Abraham Lincoln faced the collapse of the Union and the abolition of slavery as president. When Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, many states in the South had seceded from the Union in protest of his election.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Civil War was not entirely caused by Lincoln’s election, but the election was one of the primary reasons the war broke out the following year. Lincoln’s decision to fight rather than to let the Southern states secede was not based on his feelings towards slavery.