And it was three days after the Confederate Army of the southern states attacked federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

He had heard Lincoln say that he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to return to the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

That gave the southern states one hundred days to end their rebellion, or face the destruction of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

In his inaugural speech, the new president announced the policy that he would follow toward the southern states that had left the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

They wanted strong policies to punish the southern states that left the Union and lost the war.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

President Abraham Lincoln is fighting to keep the Southern states of the Confederacy from leaving the Union.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

They also wanted to be sure new governments in the southern states would support the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

No longer was the purpose simply to bring the southern states back into the Union.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

In other words,only slaves in the southern states that did not recognize Lincoln as president.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The southern states did not want Abraham Lincoln to win the election of eighteen sixty.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Buchanan had said that the constitutional rights of the southern states should be protected.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

He said the North could look on in safety while the actions of some of its people were producing flames of bitterness throughout the southern states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

And he declared war on the southern states that tried to leave.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

At that time, owning slaves was legal in the southern states.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

They organized a committee representing every one of the southern states.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Most of the war was fought in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The southern states had finally acted on their earlier threats.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

That might start a quick revolt among the southern states.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Instead,he announced his own program for the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

The southern states had withdrawn from the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Early in October, the governor of South Carolina, William Gist, wrote letters to the governors of other southern states.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

In eighteen seventy-six, both the Republicans and Democrats claimed the electoral votes of three southern states: Florida,Louisiana,and South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the president who ended slavery in the rebel southern states during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

The National Weather Service said there were ten reports of tornadoes across the central and southern Plains states last Thursday.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

He also believed pro-slavery extremists would use Lincoln's election as an excuse to take Southern states out of the union.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Most western and southern congressmen opposed the tariff bill, because it would mean higher prices to the people of their states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03