Topic > The Civil War: American History - 1175

IntroductionIt is often said that you cannot understand American history without understanding the Civil War. From April 15, 1861 to April 1865, the United States was between the North and the South of the war, also known as the American Civil War. The leaders of the North are a bourgeois war; the fighting forces are made up of large numbers of workers, peasants and blacks. In the South, they insist that the war is only about plantation slave owners, their war is about defending slavery, secession, a confederacy, reflects the country from the establishment of the day, they have the right to choose their own life of freedom , and the aim is to beat the north-south, restore national unity and abolition of the slave system, so that the capitalists get cheaper labor, which allows the capitalists to achieve smooth development. The importance of the Civil War created the history of the United States, the American morphology. Common generalization made about the civil war and the real reason behind it. The direct cause seeks the Republican candidate for the abolition of slavery. Lincoln was elected, and then the Southern states declared their independence. , and the northern states to maintain the unified federal bases, playing such a unification and division of the war. One look closely, you'll notice, Lincoln in the 1860 election, only to carry the country in four votes, except in Vermont, in the more northern states, Lincoln took only five or six votes, while in the South he didn't appear on the ballot. Namely, the Republican Party, as a regional party, achieved electoral victory, and this victory also confirmed the prophecy of former President Martin van Buren from many years ago: if the ruling party fails to gain support national, the party The country will face a division. Be,... half of the document... caused the South to secede from the Union. During the secession crisis, many politicians supported a new sectoral agreement to preserve the Union, focusing particularly on the proposed "Crittenden compromise". But 1930s historians such as James G. Randall argued that the rise of mass democracy, the collapse of the Second Party system, and an increasingly virulent and hostile sectional rhetoric made achieving the compromises of the communist party. past (such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850). Indeed, the Crittenden Compromise was rejected by Republicans. One possible "compromise" was the agreed upon peaceful secession from the United States, which was seriously discussed in the late 1860s - and supported by many abolitionists - but was rejected by James Buchanan's conservative Democrats and Republican leadership..