The War of the North and South, has remained in history as the largest and bloodiest conflict on the American continent
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- "Slavery will exist forever."
- Lincolns most famous address.
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The entire agriculture of the South was based on slave labor, while the use of unskilled slaves in factories was inefficient. The industrialists of the North needed free workers and advocated the abolition of slavery. For Southern planters, this would mean the collapse of the entire economic system built on free labor. The moral side of the issue was also important: many American public figures criticized slavery as an inhuman relic of the past and demanded its abolition. THE SPLIT OF AMERICA In 1860, Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States. He ran for the Republican Party, which advocated the abolition of slavery and support for the domestic market of the country. Lincoln's rise to power provoked the Southern States to take decisive action. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina declared secession from the United States. Within a few months, it was joined by North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas and Florida. These states organized a new state — the Confederate States of America (CSA) with its capital in Richmond. They adopted a new constitution and elected Jefferson Davis as president, who declared that in the CSA "Slavery will exist forever." All of Lincoln's proposals to discuss the situation at the negotiating table were rejected. The country was split in two. An armed conflict was brewing. Gettysburg Battle A titanic 3-day battle July (1–3, 1863) around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The largest of the Civil War (85,000 vs 65.000) The turning point of the war In the battle, Union Major General George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. November 19, 1863 at the Gettysburg cemetery: Lincoln's most famous address. "... we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have dies in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Download 21.94 Kb. Share with your friends:
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