Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 120 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-3741-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The events which led to the origins of the American Civil War and to the Civil War itself may be considered in two time periods, the long term build up over many decades and the five-month build up to war in the period immediately after the election of Abraham Lincoln as President (in November 1860) and the fall of Fort Sumter (in April 1861). Over many years from almost the beginning of the colonial period in Virginia, events, occurrences, actions and statements by politicians and others in the United States brought about issues, differences, tensions and divisions between the leaders and people of the slave states of the Southern United States and the leaders and people of the free states of the Northern United States (including Western states). The big underlying issue from which other issues developed was whether slavery should be retained and even expanded to other areas or whether it should be contained and eventually abolished. Over...