It looked like Europe now. But It was calmer back then before WW1
A) The federal government lost power over the states through the policy of new federalism.
The concept of New Federal was to transfer powers from the US federal government back to the state. The states were allowed to take a more active role in their own affairs. New federalism involves the federal government providing a block grant to the State to resolve social issues but in return, <span>the federal government would monitor outcome as well as provide broad discretion to the states for how the programs were implemented. </span>
Not sure but hope what I know help a little...Slavery was “an unqualified evil to the negro, the white man, and the State,” said Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s. Yet in his first inaugural address, Lincoln declared that he had “no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists.” He reiterated this pledge in his first message to Congress on July 4, 1861, when the Civil War was three months old.<span>Did You Know?When it took effect in January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves.</span>
What explains this apparent inconsistency in Lincoln’s statements? And how did he get from his pledge not to interfere with slavery to a decision a year later to issue an emancipation proclamation? The answers lie in the Constitution and in the course of the Civil War. As an individual, Lincoln hated slavery. As a Republican, he wished to exclude it from the territories as the first step to putting the institution “in the course of ultimate extinction.”
