Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America QUESTION PLEASE HELP?

Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America QUESTION PLEASE HELP?
How as Lincoln a fatalist after he returned from Washington. Please help. I am working on the worksheet right now!
It is a part of the book Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, and one of the questions I have to answer is how is Lincoln a fatalist after he returned from Washington and went back home? How was he a fatalist. I could find it in the book!
I couldn’t* find it in the book, or if there is any history buffs out there that would be great!

Answer by Mamie
Please ask your question more carefully. Returned from Washington to where? When?

Answer by I can’t think of a name
You need to make your question more clear before anybody can give you a good answer.

Answer by Ricky
I don’t believe Lincoln ever made it back home as he was assassinated while still in office, 1865.

Lincoln did suffer through quite a few bumbling generals at the outset of the Civil War. But if you read the Gettysburg Address, July 1863, he still talks about: “That we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

So the fatalism you speak of is puzzling > though, I’m thinking maybe it has more to do with the early years of the war, when things were not going well for the Union Army? The tide didn’t really start to change until after the Battle of Gettysburg.

How could Abraham Lincoln prevent the Civil War?
As we look back on it, today, were there any possible resolutions that both the Union and Confederates would agree on to end slavery, secession, and federalism? Could the Civil War be avoided?

Answer by Cynism is reality’s true bia
It was the Southerners whom fired the 1st shots @ Fort Sumter,which was @ the time in International waters. But Abe Lincoln couldn’t do anything about it. It was really a war about the direction which side wanted the United States to go towards. The north was more Hamiltonian about the Federal government’s role(centralization) while the South wanted a Jeffersonian America(decentralization),less govt control over people’s lives(states’ rights),except 4 their slaves.

Answer by Jess
He could not get elected.
That’s about it. The South felt threatened by his election, even though he didn’t want to abolish slavery in the states where it was already established. The Civil War was going to happen despite anything anyone did. One side would somehow be angered by the other enough to fire the first shot. It was just a matter of time.

Answer by tuffy
He could not have prevented the Civil War as president of the United States. When he was elected South Carolina seceded.

Answer by FreddyM
He couldn’t have. There were many causes of the Civil War that came before Lincoln was president that inflamed tensions:

1. Dred Scott case
2. John Brown’s raid
3. Southern economy dependent on slavery
4. Federal vs. states’ rights compromises

Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)

The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented–and, to this day, still unmatched–strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival.

Previous scholars have examined wartime challenges to civil liberties and questions of presidential power, but Neely argues that the constitutional conflict extended to the largest questions of national existence. Drawing on judicial opinions, presidential state papers, and political pamphlets spiced with the everyday immediacy of the partisan press, Neely reveals how judges, lawyers, editors, politicians, and government officials, both North and South, used their constitutions to fight the war and save, or create, their nation.

Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation illuminates how the U.S. Constitution not only survived its greatest test but emerged stronger after the war. That this happened at a time when the nation’s very existence was threatened, Neely argues, speaks ultimately to the wisdom of the Union leadership, notably President Lincoln and his vision of the American nation.

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