“While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be.” The war helped solve one main question that was left unanswered by the American Revolution: “whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world.” The Civil War started because the free and slave states could not compromise. Once Abraham Lincoln won the election in 1860, seven slave states in the South seceded from the Union. They seceded because President Lincoln wanted to abolish
“While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be.” The war helped solve one main question that was left unanswered by the American Revolution: “whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world.” The Civil War started because the free and slave states could not compromise. Once Abraham Lincoln won the election in 1860, seven slave states in the South seceded from the Union. They seceded because President Lincoln wanted to abolish