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<p>Discusses the series of events that lead to the secession of the southern states from the Union and to the start of the Civil War in 1861.</p><h3>Marya Jansen-Gruber - Children's Literature</h3><p>Without a doubt, it was an act of secession that began the terrible conflict called the Civil War. On December 20, 1860, the people in Charleston South Carolina celebrated because their delegates had decided to leave the Union. Within six months a total of eleven states had left the Union. It was the leaving, or seceding, that President Abraham Lincoln would not tolerate, and it was for this that he went reluctantly to war. The author tells us what it was that drove first South Carolina and then the other states to such a drastic step. What was it that made the South so different from the North? In the second chapter we get the opportunity to look into the issue of slavery and in the third chapter we see how this issue became a real and divisive problem in the United States. As time passed the division between the North and the South only became wider, and finally reached its peak which Abraham Lincoln was voted into the office of the Presidency. Southern leaders would not tolerate him

Author

Judith Peacock

Publisher

Mankato, Minn.: Bridgestone Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780736813426

Subjects

History, Children'S, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24