Short Notes: American Civil War, Emancipating Proclamation, Amherst, John Wilkes Booth & Mysticism

Short Notes: American Civil War, Emancipating Proclamation, Amherst, John Wilkes Booth & Mysticism

(toc) Short Notes for American Civil War, Emancipating Proclamation, Amherst, John Wilkes Booth & Mysticism American Civil War American Civil War continued from 1861 to 1865. It was a conflict between the US federal government under Abraham Lincoln, and 11 Southern states that fought to secede from the Union. It arose out of disputes over the issues of slavery, trade and tariffs and the doctrine of states' rights. Northern opposition to slavery in the Western territories caused the Southern states to fear that the existing slave-holdings, which formed the economic base of the South, were also in danger. By the 1850s abolitionism was growing in the North, and when the antislavery Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the Southern states seceded to protect what they saw as their right to keep slaves, They were organized as Confederate States of America under J. Davis. The War began in Charleston when Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter on 12 Apr…