Before Lincoln’s election, the United States was very tense. The soon-to-be Confederates were in support of slavery, (as it was helpful on their large plantations) while the future union was against it. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran to represent the northern states, while two other candidates represented the southern ones. Because the South had two candidates running, The southern votes were split between them, while Lincoln got all of the northern votes, leading him to win the election. This made the south very upset, as they knew that Lincoln was against slavery. A year later, during the attack of fort Sumter, the Confederates fight against Lincolns ideas to protect their slavery. That was the whole purpose of the Civil War. The debate over slavery. In summary, the attack on Fort Sumter, a union fort, was due to the Confederate’s wanting for slavery and the Union’s opposition to it.
because his empire spanned across an ocean it made it hard for his subjects to be directly under him, and hard to maintain a tight grasp on his empire, making the enforcement of catholicism harder as well
Toussaint L'Ouverture was one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution. This nation does not become known as Haiti until the revolution is successful. Once this nation becomes independent from French control they rename it.
