1. The American Civil War
... land to replace all the over used farming land in the other southern states. The Abolitionists were another factor that came into the tension point of slavery. People such as William Lloyd Garrison who published the newspaper, "The Liberator", which attacked southern slave owners. Making them and the slave traders out to be criminals. He and followers of his such as ... and so in February 1861 a new southern government was inaugurated as the, "Confederate States of America." This new government drafted its own constitution and elected its own president, General Jefferson Davis who was a...
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