ASOU - America Divided. LINCOLN LEARNING HUB. Lincoln would do what Truman is considering. Lincoln would see a parallel with the last bloody months of the Civil War. In early 1865, as in mid-1945, the tide had turned in the war, and yet Union armies were suffering heavy casualties as they fought the Confederacy. Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, confessed that neither side expected the war to attain “the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained.” After five long years of bloody fighting, he would have supported a quick solution to end the war, however terrible. He would have accepted 70,000 expected Japanese casualties in order to avoid many times that number from both sides if the war were to continue. By 1865, Lincoln realized that modern warfare had evolved from straightforward battlefield engagements to “total war.”
Lincoln was no pacifist. Lincoln was a strong supporter of the latest scientific discoveries. Lincoln would not do what Truman is considering. Lincoln was a cautious leader. America The Story of Us — America and the Civil War — History.com Videos. The Union Sends a Message — History.com Video. The Gettysburg Address. Civil War Art.
9e - Major Battles. 9d - Important People. 9c - Secession. 9b - Compromises & Secession. 9a - Causes of the WBTS. America Divided Video. Causes of the CW. An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia - Surviving War – The Homefront - Virginia Historical Society. Introduction Slavery caused the war, but the war was not begun to free the slaves. The war was begun to determine whether the Confederate States of America would be allowed to break away as an independent nation, or whether the existing Union would survive.
Only later did the conflict become one of liberation. Why did the South want independence? Southern wealth was mostly invested in slaves or slave-worked land. Abraham Lincoln, newly elected president, led a party pledged to ban slavery in new states. Seven slaveholding states seceded following the election. This online exhibition, like the physical version of the show, is divided into two parts that pose a series of questions. "So Glad God's Sending The War" More informationSlave Auction by Lefevre James Cranstone, 1860-63 (VHS accession number: 1991.70)Enslaved African Americans generally welcomed the war as an end to intolerable conditions.
Inconvenient Truth or Propaganda? View fullscreenPike, 1859 (Bequest of Lee A. CW Curriculum. Abraham Lincoln.