The Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy lasted four bloody years of battling. Before Abraham Lincoln took oath as president in 1860, the Southern secessionists called for an immediate disunion from the United States. The Confederacy was originally formed by seven slave states in the Deep South that depended on the African American slaves for the benefits of their agricultural economy. Both Presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, used their military experience to have a durable army of men to defeat one and another. While both the Northerners and Southerners believed they fought in the Civil War over tyranny and oppression, the ideal of secession and slavery influence political viewpoints and economical distinction. …show more content…
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong” (Finkelman, 17). By the 1850s, new tract territories was added to United States. The moral issue of slavery was not presented in the eyes of the Southerners. “For the South, it was a federal code guaranteeing slavery in the territories and paving the way for the new slave states, coupled with a Fugitive Slave Law that fully swung the weight of the federal government behind the interests of slaveholders” (Earle, 8). The Fugitive Slave Law benefitted the slave states because runaway slaves were returned back to slave masters. Then the Northern state leaders began to withdraw support the return of fugitive slaves which led to slaveholders unable to recover their runaway slaves. After Lincoln’s victory in election, Vice President Henry Wilson stated, “ We shall arrest the extension of slavery and rescue the Government from the gasp of slave power / We shall blot out slavery from the national capital. We shall surround the slave states with a cordon of free states. We shall the appeal to the hearts and consciences of men and in a few years we shall give liberty to the millions in bondage” (Earle, 11). The only way to end slavery was by retrieving the abusive power from the government. The Republicans, the anti-slavery party, was determined to end the future of Southerners’ peculiar