The secessionists claimed that according to the Constitution every state had the right to leave the Union. Lincoln claimed that they did not have that right. He opposed secession for these reasons:
1. Physically the states cannot separate.
2. Secession is unlawful.
3. A government that allows secession will disintegrate into anarchy.
4. That Americans are not enemies, but friends.
5. Secession would destroy the world's only existing democracy, and prove for all time, to future Americans and to the world, that a government of the people cannot survive.
Lincoln may have thought the fifth point was the most important. If you traveled the earth in 1860, and visited every continent and every nation, you would have found many examples of monarchies, dictatorships, and other examples of authoritarian rule. But in the all the world, you would have found only one major democracy: The United States of America. Democracy had been attempted in one other nation in the eighteenth century - France. Unfortunately, that experiment in self-government deteriorated rapidly, as the citizens resorted more to the guillotine than to the ballot box. From the ashes of that experiment in self-government, rose a dictator who, after seizing control in France, attempted to conquer the continent of Europe.
What was America's Response to the Holocaust before the War?
Americans paid attention and were <em>outraged </em>by the Nazi attacks through petitions where tens of thousands of Americans wrote, signed, and sent the documents to Washington. It tells that the American people had information on the persecution of the Jews in 1933. The Americans saw the early warning sign through Adolf Hitler, an authoritarian ruler who had spread an exclusionary and violent racist ideology that became the precursors to genocide. To protest, Americans showed up at rallies and boycotted German stores.
What could the US Have done differently?
Adolf Hitler paid close attention to the American media coverage and may have gone further, and faster, had he not read about the American people's disapproval. Fewer Jews may have gotten out of Germany, and America could have been less prepared to respond militarily. The rallies, petitions, and boycotts mattered a great deal with a network formed by like-minded Americans who in this period that later led some Americans to raise their voices even louder and take greater risks as Nazi persecutions of Jews worsened in Europe. There were warning signs on Hitler and Nazi Germany, weekly and the US would have acted. These signs included the targeting of Jews, communists, and other political opponents.
He had been against American involvement before becoming president.
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The Federalist favored the constitution as the basis of a new government because they </span>C.) wanted a strong central government
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There was a boom in fur trading in that time, more Posts were created, artists came and showed a vast wilderness, the Native American people received smallpox and three main tribes almost died off, and they were also placed into reservations. The military also made their presence known.
