And when Lee's forces turned back at Gettysburg, the last Confederate offense in the North, Southern momentum for winning the war was finally broken. ... Southern Democrats held a separate convention and nominated John C. ... In the South the contest was between Bell and Breckinridge; Lincoln's name did not appear on the ballot in ten of the Southern states. ... His tone is moderate, however, when addressing the Southern rebels. ... April 3, 1861 The first PONY EXPRESS run arrives in Sacramento, California. ...

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The north won the civil war for many reasons.There are many factors that lead to the north's victory.I will begin by mentioning the compromise of 1850.After Lincoln won the election, himself and Black Republican Allies pressured the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Delaware to remain in the union.Crittenden's compromise restored the Missouri compromise line of 36/30 to California and guaranteed the national gov. would not bother with slave states that already existed.Anything north of this line was unconstitional.The territory was divided into the Nebra...

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Instead Polk made Slidell permanent minister and instructed him to open negotiations for the sale of California. ... Polk was very anxious to purchase California from Mexico and he knew that Mexico would refuse to give it up. ... When Lincoln was elected, Southern states were convinced that he would abolish slavery. ... Polk wanted both California and Mexico and he did, but the war dragged on too long with many lives lost and more money than he wanted to use. ...

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The northern factories were ready to accept as much raw cotton as the southern growers could ship them. ... In 1790 there were about 657,000 slaves in the Southern states. ... Thanks in large part to the cotton gin, cotton growing became very profitable, and cotton quickly became the most important crop across much of the southern United States. ... By 1800 or so, however, African American slavery was once again a thriving institution, especially in the Southern United States. ... This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton short staple cotton--that was especially well ...

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Though the Southern economy boomed because of cotton, it did not modernize, largely because the South became too dependent on cotton. Many Southerners felt that if slavery were to be abolished in the United States, the Southern culture would disappear with it, because Southern culture by 1860 was completely immersed in a slave society. ... The compromise of 1850, which admitted California to statehood as a slave state, enacted the fugitive slave law, and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to be "received into the Union, with or without slavery," was appr...

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" In the compromise, the California admission issue was resolved and it was admitted as a free state, also, there would be no more slave trade in Washington D.C., and the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico ended in favor of New Mexico. ... These Southern states assumed that Lincoln would turn the U.S. to be a non-slavery nation because Lincoln wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. ...

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