Most of them didn't. The Abolitionists did. But most Northerners were not Abolitionists, and were just exasperated that all of this was bringing war nearer.
Abolitionists pressured Lincoln to end the slavery after the start of the Civil War in 1861. These pressures also affected Lincoln to declare the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
India was a British colony during the Civil War, and not the most contented one. Great Britain leaned toward the Confederacy while maintaining diplomatic relations with the Union, but the Civil War likely did not effect India in any significant way, nor did India have any significant effect on the Civil War.
Abolitionists were people in the US who sought to abolish, or end, slavery in the 1800's. Whether or not to abolish slavery was a key issue that led to the US Civil War.
gaining the right for African Americans to vote
Abolitionists
Most of them didn't. The Abolitionists did. But most Northerners were not Abolitionists, and were just exasperated that all of this was bringing war nearer.
Republicans
John Brown, Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass were all pre-Civil War abolitionists
five percent
Republicans
An abolitionist was important in the civil war because abolitionists wanted to abolish or get rid of slavery. And for a lot of people the war was about slavery.
The US Civil War was indeed significant, affecting millions of people.
Other slaves or abolitionists. ;)
It heightened the division between the two sides - it delighted the South and greatly offended Northern abolitionists. It raised the temperature of the debate, and brought civil war closer.
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Abolitionists were people who fought against slavery, prior to the USA Civil War.