LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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Question
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Southern states were happy.
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Northern states hated him.
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He began to establish more slave states.
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Southern states began to secede.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the election of President Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860, becoming the first state to do so.
Detailed explanation-2: -One month after the election of President Lincoln, states began to secede from the Union citing several reasons. Their demands included states’ rights to maintain slavery, but also focused on property rights as they cited lack of enforcement of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.
Detailed explanation-3: -Five months after his election, the North and South were engrossed in a bloody civil war. This was the culmination over thirty years of debate about the slavery and extension of slavery into new territories. The first state to secede from the Union was South Carolina.
Detailed explanation-4: -The fall of Fort Sumter brought the secession crisis to the breaking point. On April 15, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75, 000 volunteers to serve in the U.S. Army for a period of ninety days. In doing so, Lincoln answered the South’s challenge to civil war.