a house once more divided

The election of Abraham Lincoln outraged many in SouthSouth Carolina Governor Francis Pickens to Civil Warhe would be willing to cover the state with ruin, conflagration and blood rather South Carolina became the first state to secede. ..

slavery and the origins of the civil war

Even if the Republicans had pledged not to interfere with slavery directly, the planters knew the Republican victory would encourage slave resistance and lead to the spread of abolitionist ideas in the South. South Carolina left the Union in December 1860, and by the following June..

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