LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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a major tax increase from the federal government
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the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the USA
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Lincoln freeing all enslaved African Americans in the South
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Charleston’s port being blockaded by the Lincoln
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the secession of four states after the Battle of Fort Sumter, one of Lincoln’s major concerns was that the slave-holding border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri would join the Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -States that Seceded from the Union After Abraham Lincoln was declared the winner of the Presidential election of 1860, Southern states were outraged. Southern states were concerned that the Republican government would attempt to abolish slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860. The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South.