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.” 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? CW Curriculum. Abraham Lincoln.