Civil War-sectionalism

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from Britain, a majority of colonial representatives felt the need for independence. The Declaration of Independence was the document written to do this. It called for an abolition of slavery as well as freedom from British rule. Unfortunately, the South would hear nothing of it. Being strong defenders of states rights, most of the Southern states adhered to their believe in a government less like a supreme authority and more like a dominion of independent states. They would rather stay loyal to their oppressive government than participate in one that shunned their way of life. In order to keep their dreams of independence, they North was forced to make the one cession they did not wish to make. In order to keep a unified nation, the slavery issue was deliberately absent from the Declaration. Some of the Northern delegates were outraged, but none more than John Adams. A renowned proponent of equal rights, he was one of few that saw the irony in establishing a free society ...

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the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. For the first time, a President was elected with no support from the South. Following the lead of South Carolina, seven of the united states seceded from the union to make their own nation. That was the catastrophe of the North. Lincoln would soon launch a crusade to reunite the United States; and his success or failure would decide the fate of the nation. Mobilization for war was what followed, and after the bloodiest fighting in American history, the North finally succeeded in stopping secession. The difference in culture between the North and South had led the nation to brink of destruction, it was all inevitable, and probably necessary. The ...

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