Lincoln Lincoln’s Position s Position • The Republicans, after sounding out (试 探)President–elect Lincoln in Illinois, voted against the proposal. Lincoln took the position that the restoration of the Missouri Compromise line would encourage the South to embark on imperialist adventures in Latin America. • Lincoln and other prominent Republicans believed that Southerners were bluffing (虚张声势) when they threatened secession
Secession in 1861 ·“To rally the men of the North,who would preserve the government as our fathers found it. we should offer no doubtful or divided front. wrote Senator Jefferson Davis (1808-1889). On December 20,1860.South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession from the Union declaring the state once again independent.The rest of the Deep South quickly followed suit.On February 7,1861,the states stretching from South Carolina to Texas organized the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis President
Secession in 1861 • “To rally the men of the North, who would preserve the government as our fathers found it, we should offer no doubtful or divided front,” wrote Senator Jefferson Davis (1808–1889). • On December 20, 1860, South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession from the Union declaring the state once again independent. The rest of the Deep South quickly followed suit. On February 7, 1861, the states stretching from South Carolina to Texas organized the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis President
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8.2 Causes of the Civil War Slavery:"You think slavery is right and ought to be expanded;while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted.That I suppose is the rub."(Lincoln to a friend) Political system:The ceaseless Constitutional disputes between Republicans and Southerners over the nature of the Federal Union and states'rights inflicted wounds in their heart. Economic differences:between the industrializing North and the agricultural South
8.2 Causes of the Civil War • Slavery: “You think slavery is right and ought to be expanded; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub.” (Lincoln to a friend) • Political system: The ceaseless Constitutional disputes between Republicans and Southerners over the nature of the Federal Union and states’ rights inflicted wounds in their heart. • Economic differences: between the industrializing North and the agricultural South