Many in the Confederacy have reacted quite negatively to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. The policy provides a way for Confederate citizens to pledge loyalty to the United States and thus receive a pardon, while also setting in place a plan to, over time, re-incorporate into the United States those…
The Civil War has raised racial tensions to new heights in the South and in some areas of the North. The number of openly racist Northerners is such that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is not assured of re-election in the coming 1864 election. Hoping to tip the presidential election away from Lincoln and force the…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, following a series of Union battlefield victories over the past six months, senses momentum on the side of the United States in the war against the rebellious Southern states. The Union now controls much of the South, and some states are ready for their governments to be rebuilt. In addition, the…