History of the United States (1849-1865): United States presidential election, 1860, Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 128. Chapters: United States presidential election, 1860, Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation, United States presidential election, 1864, United States presidential election, 1852, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Homestead Act, National Bank Act, Wilmot Proviso, Pony Express, Convention of Kanagawa, Timeline of United States history, Origins of the American Civil War, Trent Affair, James Buchanan, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, History of the United States, Sand Creek massacre, Know Nothing, Transatlantic telegraph cable, Baltimore Plot, Sioux Wars, Panic of 1857, Georgia Platform, Morrisite War, Chesapeake Affair, History of New York City, Overland Trail, Pacific Railway Acts, Japanese Embassy to the United States, Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Virginia Kyle Campbell, Plantation era, Avery O. Craven Award, Daniel Ullman, Doughface, The Slave Power, Cipriano Ferrandini, Black Ships, Treaty of Tientsin, Richard Frothingham, Jr., Dunbar's Guerillas, James Brown Clay, Broderick Park, Fire-Eaters, Religious Reform in Antebellum America, Galphin Affair. Excerpt: The main explanation for the origins of the American Civil War is slavery, especially Southern anger at the attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Southern slave owners held that such a restriction on slavery would violate the principle of states' rights. In 1860, the election of Abraham Lincoln, who won the national election without receiving a single electoral vote from any of the Southern states, triggered declarations of secession from the United States by slave states of the Deep South, and their formation of the Confederate States of America. Nationalists (in the North and elsewhere) refused to recognize secession, nor did any ...