The Election of Lincoln, Secession of the southern states and the Confederate States of America Constitution set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American History. Before the Civil war even began the Nation was divided into four very distinct regions; Northeast, Northwest, Upper south and the Southwest. With two fundamentally different labor systems, slavery in the south and wage labor in the North, the political, economic and social changes across the nation would show the views of the North and the South. The civil war was based on the abolitionists’ ideas of emancipation and liberation of slavery the North wanted the war in order to create a society without slavery. The North’s aggression to control the south lead to the where were it was no longer tolerable for the South. With the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln, the southern states decided they had to take drastic action in order to protect their own interests. The south had been waiting......
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