American Civil War

 

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln, a member of the antislavery Republican Party was elected as the 16th US president. Slavery was a very important part of the southern economy  because it was based principally on large farms (plantations) that produced commercial crops such as cotton and that relied on slaves as the main labour force so when antislavery politician-Lincoln was elected, 11 southern states(in chronological order, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina)  decided to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America.

Just one year later the war between the Union states (23 states) and the states of the Confederacy broke down.

The North was more developed and populated than The South so after 4 years of deadly battles Lincoln and his army managed to win.

War of Separation was the most lethal American conflict in history. Approximately 625,000 men died in the Civil War(more than in WWI and WWII combined) but thanks to it slavery in the US was abolished.

Links:

https://www.history.com/news/10-surprising-civil-war-facts

https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War/The-cost-and-significance-of-the-Civil-War

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  1. englishdiary3 grudnia 2020 11:36

    And now the Republican party seems to be at the other end of the political scale - entirely against progress.

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