The Fugitive Slave Act.When Congress agreed to enforce this more rigorously, it set up a wave of sympathy for the runaways, and put the North in the mood for war on the slave-owning South.
Slaves were considered property in the same manner as cattle. The free states were obligated to honor the slave states' laws concerning retrieval of property under the policy of States Rights. The...
The Constitution of the United States of America made the President, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Lincoln was the President. As such he warned the enemy to surrender or that as part of...