And in the process it would deter both British and French intervention--the former by making plain the Union's antislavery agenda, the latter by removing a key support beam, the slave-holding South, for the new French empire in North America. ... Liberty and Union were for him, as they had been for Daniel Webster before him, one and inseparable. ...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually...
