Abraham Lincoln had just signed the emancipation proclamation before he was shot which freed all of the slaves; However, the majority of the south still did not see the slaves as free and so they discriminated against them. Race relations were tight.
When a terrorist group seeks independence from a country
The French revolutionary wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Great Britain.