Lincoln Administrations - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
Two domestic issues dominated the Lincoln administration: the American Civil War (1860–65) and the related issue of slavery. All other issues including the currency questions, race relations, preventing European intervention in the Civil War, nonmilitary legislation, and eventually questions of reconstruction after the war hinged on the execution of the war effort and decisions regarding slavery.
The Birth of the Confederacy
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina voted to secede from the Union. The South Carolinians feared that when Lincoln became president and the Republicans took control of Congress in March of 1861, they would act to end slavery across the United States. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, the so-called Deep South, soon followed South Carolina. These states banded together and began to form...
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