The 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln was a turning point for the United States. Throughout the tumultuous 1850s, the Fire-Eaters of the southern states had been threatening to leave the Union. With Lincoln’s election, they prepared to make good on their threats. Indeed, the Republican president-elect appeared to be their worst nightmare. The Republican Party committed itself to keeping slavery out of the territories as the country expanded westward, a position that shocked southern sensibilities. Meanwhile, southern leaders suspected that Republican abolitionists would employ the violent tactics of John Brown to deprive southerners of their slave property. The threat posed by the Republican victory in the election of 1860 spurred eleven southern states to leave the Union to form the Confederate States of America, a new republic dedicated to maintaining and expanding slavery. The Union, led by President Lincoln, was unwilling to accept the departure of these states and committed itself to restoring the country. Beginning in 1861 and continuing until 1865, the United States engaged in a brutal Civil War that claimed the lives of over 600,000 soldiers. By 1863, the conflict had become not only a war to save the Union, but also a war to end slavery in the United States. Only after four years of fighting did the North prevail. The Union was preserved, and the institution of slavery had been destroyed in the nation.
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The plan took away power belonging to the Cabinet.
The plan increased the powers of the presidency
The plan created less accountability to the Senate.</span>
The massive turmoil that the Reformation<span> caused had a lasting </span>impact<span> on </span>European politics<span>. Soon after the Catholic Church deemed Martin Luther a “Protestant,” then </span>Europe <span>became divided along confessional, as well as territorial, lines. The </span>religious<span> turmoil of the period led to warfare within most states and between many.
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4.27% of the world is from the U.S.A
He intended to arm slaves with weapons from the arsenal, but the attack failed.
