SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Sectionalism
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Election of 1860
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Westward Expansion and it’s legislation
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Assassination of President Lincoln
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Detailed explanation-1: -As the war drew to a close with the fall of Richmond on April 3, 1865, and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, there were Southern sympathizers who believed that the Confederacy could be restored. John Wilkes Booth held that belief, and it was the motive behind his plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this open letter to Horace Greeley, President Lincoln maintained that the central cause of the Civil War was to keep the country united and not to free the slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -At 10:15, Booth slipped into the box and fired his . 44-caliber single-shot derringer pistol into the back of Lincoln’s head. After stabbing Rathbone, who immediately rushed at him, in the shoulder, Booth leapt onto the stage and shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (“Thus ever to tyrants!”-the Virginia state motto).
Detailed explanation-4: -A former Whig, Lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War.