THE PRIVATE COMMITMENT OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1861 – 1865)

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The United States of America is a confirmed democracy. Holding a prominent place on the list of worldwide democratic nations, the US vaunts its democracy and goes to great lengths to sell it to countries deemed less democratic. But the road to such heights has been thorny. Though its Declaration of Independence enshrines democratic principles and claims fundamental rights for Americans, God-given rights re-stated in its Constitution, America carried on practicing the dreadful system of slavery which they even considered as peculiar institution, which meant that it was an institution which could not be destroyed. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, together with the part of the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court of 1857 which declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, worsened the situation. As a result, President Abraham Lincoln as a very talented and gifted politician thought that war was the only solution to abolish slavery and to bring back the Southern seceded States into the Union. And he achieved his goal.
It is because of Lincoln that the United States is the great nation it is today.