How did Lincoln abolish slavery in all states? ?
He didn't. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation specifically only freed slaves in areas of the Confederacy that weren't under Union control as of January 1st 1863. The few Union States that had slaves kept them after the Emancipation Proclamation came into effect and areas of the Confederates States that had Slaves and were firmly under Union control were allowed to keep them. Furthermore Lincoln was actually dead when Slavery was outlawed in the United States of America. The truth is that the Emancipation Proclamation was more of a building block for future Abolition in all of the Union and not a document of immediate Abolition in all the Union and the Confederacy. Lincoln only laid the foundation of total Abolition of Slavery in America. He didn't actually Abolish Slavery in the whole Unites States, just in certain areas of the South.
What would the history of the United States have been like if slavery was abolished in 1776?
The economy of the USA would have expanded to much greater size at any point in time, all throughout its history.All of those millions of hours of wage-free slavery and the resulting grossly under-priced raw cotton produced by it, would have been replaced with pay envelopes for PAID labor, and a raw cotton product to be priced higher, reflecting those wages.The feel of cotton fabric on the skin, as compared to wool, would still have created the same huge, implacable demand for raw cotton all over the world, with or without slavery.The effect caused by millions of plantation wage-earners with a pay-envelope, who thus could BUY STUFF, from others, who now also could BUY STUFF from others, etc, etc. would have been exponential economic expansion.The South would have been an economic powerhouse, with the plantation owners developing into Billionaires rather than the millionaires they were under slavery. The economy today in the whole USA would have grown to ten times larger than it is now.That stupid war was so outrageously expensive, in so may ways….
Abolition of Slavery in the United States question?
By the time the Industrial Revolution kicked in, the British Empire no longer had a reliance on slave-based labor. After the United States achieved its independence, the British grew less reliant on the West Indies, and thus less reliant on the plantations based there. That's not to say some form of slavery didn't exist in other colonies, such as Jamaica, and certain business actions that occurred in its African colonies could be taken as some form of slavery, but slavery as a proper was no longer something the British Empire relied too heavily on. The same couldn't be said for the American South, which relied too heavily on slave-based labor for its economy. Slaves were an asset in achieving some economic goal, and as unsavory of a means of profiting it was, it pretty much worked for them.
Did The American Civil War abolish slavery?
Nahtazu is correct, the original reason the Civil war was fought was due to state's rights, Slavery was just one of many issues lumped together in that area. Many people get confused and believe that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ended Slavery. However the proclamation was mainly for political reasons and legally had hardly any power at all. Lincoln's primary motive was to gain support through Northern sympathy for the slaves. In the Proclamation, Lincoln only freed the slaves currently in Confederate States, or the states that seceded from the Union. However there were 5 slave states, the bordering states between the Union and the Confederacy, that did not go with the others: Delaware,Maryland, Kentucky,Missouri, and West Virginia. If Lincoln freed slaves in these states, they may very well secede as well; leaving the Northern states vulnerable. Maryland was a very important ally, due to its location near D.C. If these Border States changed side, the North faced serious problems. Also, most the states in the South refused to acknowledge the Proclaimation and many slaves were still held.The Civil War officially ended April 9, 1865 when General Robert E. Lee's signed his surrender at Appomattox Court House. Slavery was still in practice afterwards. The true end of slavery didn't come until the admittance of the 18th amendment in the constitution in 1919.