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[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html by PBS 1861-1865] | [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html by PBS 1861-1865] | ||
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded. By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. | On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded. By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. | ||
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WAR===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/amanpour/poolsystem.html by PBS] | |||
During the Gulf War, when this draconian new philosophy of censorship came in, suddenly we found ourselves in these pools. Now, I had been covering the whole buildup, ever since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait [in 1990], so I really hoped to be able to cover the war as well. Instead, like in roulette, we were picked and put into pools. | |||
