Civil+warTS

==**__Civil War__** == In the December of 1860, Senator John J. Crittenden proposed a compromise that included a series of constitutional amendments and would have extended the Missouri Compromise line all the way to California.The Union (North) and the Confederates (South) fought several bloody battles, including the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln's plan for reuniting the country after these horrors was called The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. It proposed that, the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment."