Does anyone know who the key political leaders were from right before the Civil War ?

Question

I have looked all over & cant seem to find anythin .. (whoever helps the most (( key leaders .. which side they were for .. what they did)) .. (( that type of thing )) .. will get best answer) .. thank you in advance !

Answer 1

Your kidding right?
You've looked all over the internet and can't find this info?

Answer 2

Well before the civil war, James Buchanan was the Union president... When the south seceded, Davis (west point grad. captain, blackhawk war although not a military genious) was elected the confederate president. After the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln (Wigg Republican) became the Union President.

Answer 3

Northern Democrats for popular sovereignity were people like Stephen Douglas

Southern Democrate were people lke Breckinridge and Jefferson Davis and Charles Sumner

Republicans were led by Lincoln Fremont Seward

Answer 4

Okay, Robert E. Lee was a general for the Conferdracy (south) Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a general for the Union (north) Gen. Lee surendered to Gen. Jackson. If you need more email me and I will help you!

Answer 5

well try this Jefferson Davis was the president of the confederacy, and abraham lincoln was the president of the union. lincoln helped abolish slavery, and gave equal rights to blacks, but davis did'nt do much except govern the south/

Answer 6

john c. calhoun,abraham lincoln,fredrick douglas,jefferson davis,winfield scott,robert e. lee,dred scott,horace greeley,andrew carnegie,jay gould,j.pierpoint morgan,many of the great railroad czars were very important figures in american expansionist politics at that time!!duels and fist fights errupted on the very capital grounds over "states' rights" and slavery issues!!and also whether newly admitted territorial states would enter the union as "free" or "slave states"!!this because "voting issues" generally grouped this interest against others regionally into voting "blocks" with a vested interest either for or against the issue of slavery!!there were many permutations within these "broad amalgamations" though;some anti-slavery regions would not welcome black peoples to live amongst them;some people would welcome the ***** peoples; but only in the capacity of "cheap labor" or paid servitude;some although they hated slavery would never embrace inter-racial marriage or misengination on any terms...these would vote against slavery as an "unfair competition" to paid laborers of european extraction and then from only certain "acceptable countries"..john brown was ,although a societal menace of the first degree, a great catalytic figure who ,even though perhaps insane to boot,drew both sides into armed combat and raging warfare!!it is ironic that when he seized the federal arsenal at harper's ferry and threatened to arm the black slaves against their southern masters ;that the officer in charge of quashing his rebellion was robert e. lee who had trained most of the officers who reached "general rank" on both sides of "the recent unpleasantness between the states"..the civil war!!quantrill,a former school teacher;jesse and frank james,and others were born into the clash of southern and northern interests and issues and not all slaves were sure what would happen to them after a conflict between north and south were concluded!!many of the anti-slavery forces would have voted for a complete exodus and deportion of benighted black slaves directly back to africa from whence they had been wrenched!!cotton was "king" in the south and was very labor intensive!! the mechanization of the cotton gin that separated the seeds from the bolls of cotton had increased the demand remarkablly for more raw cotton and britain would pay better prices than the north american mills and factors in the fabric making industries of the north!!these sorts of "financial considerations" even more than "slavery issues" brought the north and south into the realm of armed combat;northern fabric and garment concerns needed the southern cotton;but after the cotton gin made the raw cotton a more finished and desireable product within the south boundaries without the northern industries needing to further process it before weaving and making the bolts of fabric and the finished garments afterwards!!without the need for additional processing "up north"it freed southern farmers to export ,for a better price, the basic commodity away from america and the industrial demand of the burgeononing and hungry cities there!!prices were rising making many planters in all "southern regional products"plutocraticallly rich"!proud of their successes and determined to maintain their culture,their "ways of doing things"and slavery allowed these great planters the great strides economically!!most southerners never could afford or hope to own or maintain even farming slaves; the same was true in the north!!racial resentments there were usually confined to the fact that slaves competed too readily with "labor for pay" workers;not out of any great concern for the "black peoples'" welfare,rights or even in a belief in their humanity;it was for, poor whites ,a matter of direct competiton with slave labor for the food to live and lodging to raise a family!!slavery was a "doomed institution" from it's beginnings in the realm of free american political thought and laws for human benefit!!but the harmful tobacco made the colonies initially viable because of european demand for the product,cotton was also a savior for colonial industry and economic viability!!it is too sad that the "culture of the south" that made america self-sustaining and viable and yeilded such beautiful architectural wonders ,nusic of a world class stature and a respect for the neo-classical arts was based on such a regrettable ,heinious and inhuman institution as slavery!!but without that past and the stresses of bottled-up potential generation after generation;america would not be the country that it is today!!black contributions include the viable electric light bulb,the trafficlight,jazz/blues and rock 'n'roll music;musical and instrumental virtuosity spread "population-wide" by black example and innovations in instruments and presentation!!medical,judicial and governmental contributions that serve us all as a result!!a the warriors of afro-american hertitage have served us boldly in every war and in every service since the american revolution,they are a firm and stalwart backbone to our national pride and stature as are all person of color brought to this place by whatever means; had they never been brought here what a different and irreversiblly terrible world we would have!!it's something to think about!!