Slavery split up the country, and with the North's striving to abolish slavery, many southern states began seceeding, beginning with South Carolina.
The election of Lincoln, who had refused to allow any extension of slavery.
Northern States abolished slavery between 1777 & 1804.
Northern States abolished slavery between 1777 & 1804.
The main reason the Union fought in the war was to keep the Southern states in the Union. Another reason was to abolish slavery.
Civil War
... abolish slavery.
he traveled to the Southern States to abolish slavery.
It was passed to abolish (get rid of) slavery.
Because they refused to give up slavery
Slavery was economically and culturally entrenched in the southern states in the late eighteenth century. The southern States would not have supported the ratification of the Constitution if it had called for the end of slavery.
Well, there wasn't a BILL that was passed to abolish slavery. There was the Emancipation Proclamation which said that all slaves living in the Southern states were free. Slavery didn't officially become abolished until the passing of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Just an agreement to abolish slavery
At first, when he became President, he did not want to abolish slavery like the southern states thought, he just wanted slavery from spreading westward. Then later, he changed his mind and decided he was going to abolish slavery.
they abolished slavery in the northern united states in 1861 and in the southern united states slavery was abolished in 1865.
The southern cotton producing states were the most threatened by slavery. They would lose cheap labor if slavery was abolished.
Slavery split up the country, and with the North's striving to abolish slavery, many southern states began seceeding, beginning with South Carolina.