THE CIVIL WAR AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE CIVIL WAR AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Summary/Abstract: “A CIVIL WAR IS A BATTLE BETWEEN THE SAME CITIZENS IN A COUNTRY. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR WAS FOUGHT FROM 1861 TO 1865 TO DETERMINE THE INDEPENDENCE FOR THE CONFEDERACY OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNION. BY THE TIME ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1861, IN THE MIST OF 34 STATES, THE CONSTANT DISAGREEMENT CAUSED SEVEN SOUTHERN SLAVE STATES TO THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE UNITED STATES AND FORMED THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. THE CONFEDERACY, GENERALLY KNOWN AS THE SOUTH, GREW TO INCLUDE ELEVEN STATES. THE STATES THAT REMAINED DEVOTED TO THE US WERE KNOWN AS THE UNION OR THE NORTH. THE NUMBER ONE QUESTION THAT IS NEVER COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR IS WHAT CAUSED THE WAR. THERE WERE MULTIPLE EVENTS THAT LED TO THE GROUNDBREAKING, BLOODY, AND POLITICAL WAR. IN THE 19TH CENTURY THERE WAS A POPULAR DOCTRINE OR BELIEF THAT THE WESTWARD EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES NOT ONLY COULD HAPPEN, BUT THAT IT WAS DESTINED TO STRETCH FROM COAST TO COAST.”[1] THIS PAPER IS DEVIDED INTO TWO MAJOR PARTS CLOSELY CONNECTED. THE FIRST PART PRESENTS THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND INTENDS TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1. WHAT WERE THE REASONS BEHIND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR? 2. WHICH WERE THE MAIN FIGURES, AND BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR? 3. WHICH WERE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR? THE SECOND PART OF THE PAPER PRESENTS AN EMBLEMATIC FIGURE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY: THE PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HERE ARE PRESENTED HIS LIFE, POLITICAL ACTIVITY, ASSASINATION AND HIS ROLE IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. THE CONCLUSIONS ROUND THIS PRESENTATION.

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