SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
START OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Question
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preserve the Union.
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free the slaves.
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destroy the South.
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please the abolitionists.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil War began as a purely military effort with limited political objectives. The North was fighting for reunification, and the South for independence.
Detailed explanation-2: -One loosely defined group of historians argues that most white Northerners aimed primarily to restore the Union: to preserve the nation and not to transform it. Other historians, meanwhile, claim that white Northerners generally sought to extend freedom by creating a new nation without slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -The total war was an agenda that goes beyond pitched battles between armies, it attacks a whole national infrastructure, including towns, and villages. It started with a complete blockade of the Confederate coast, with the objective of preventing the export of cotton, and the import of munitions and other supplies.