America in Crisis: Civil War & Reconstruction Part I: 1850-1861
At the slaveholding South all is peace, quiet, plenty, and contentment. ---George Fitzhugh, 1854 He now wills to remove (slavery), and that he gives to both North and South, this terrible war. . . . ---Abraham Lincoln, 1865
Draft of Virginia’s Proclamation Of Secession, June 14, 1861
1850’s Decade of Crisis 1856 1852 1856 1854
1859 1857 1860
Secession: December, 1860--April, 1861
The Result of Sectionalism
The Impact of the War Costs 13th-15th Amendments Triumph of industrial capitalism Increased powers of the executive and legislative branches End of Southern dominance Supremacy of the federal government
Summary 1. 2. 3. 4.