Oral history is the transmission of historical knowledge orally over time. This means that the traditions, past, and historical events of groups of peoples are not written down in text or books but instead are transmitted through oral histories over time. Oral histories are common in cultures and societies all around the world including Sub-Saharan Africa.
The answer for this question is: <span>the election of Abraham Lincoln as President
Abaraham Lincoln was always known as someone that really see slavery as something that undermines human's value.
Not long after elected as president, Abraham Lincoln made several policies that make it harder for the southern states to keep their slaves, which led to the first secession.</span>
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'Released from foreign war, we would probably be plunged into all the misery of anarchy and intestine war. Can we suppose that the people of the south, would submit to having the seat of Empire at Philadelphia, or New England; or that the people oppressed by a change of government, contrasting their misery with their former happy state, would not invite Britain to reassume the sovereignty.” — James Chalmers, Plain Truth, 1776
If the one above is the argument, you might consider that the colonists did obtain independence from England. That by itself was something that Chalmers always thought to be impossible without serious repercussions. He used to say that in the case of achieving freedom, America would just end up being attacked and maybe even colonized by some other country. What happened, thought, was that after the revolution, other countries gained respect for America as an opponent and the country was eventually left to be.
He was a American politician and engineer. Was the 31 president.