In the North, where there was an abolitionist movement led by men like William Lloyd Garrison, slavery was protested against as immoral and irrational. ... Under a man named William W. ... However, Confederate President Jefferson Davis felt the war was not just about the interests of slaveholders. ... However, Davis expressed a broader, traditional ideology for going to war. Davis declared that Southerners were fighting for constitutional liberty. ...

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The Scent of War In the mid 1800's war was in the air. It was a smell, a feeling; it was spreading like a disease and everyone was catching it. It drove people to different decisions on the same idea and this led to trouble. Trouble usually means war, and war means political craziness. A...

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Similarly, William Seward echoed Lincoln's beliefs four months later when he stated that "Our country . . . exhibits . . . two radically different political systems; the one resting on the basis of . . . slave labor, the other on voluntary labor of freemen. ... Lincoln won the election of 1860, and within three months; the South had seceded and soon after appointed Jefferson Davis as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America. ...

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• Grade Level: High School