United States Civil War 1860-1865

Actaully the American civil was wasn't really about slavery at all. that's just a part of it that most people remember. It was about autonomous states and government. States in the south didn't think their people should be ruled by some beaurocratic diplomats in Washington. Who, at the time, most were from the north. They wanted their people to be ruled by their people in their own states. They didn't want some 'foreigner' telling them what to do. In those times life was very different in the north and in the south. And the south didn't want some yankee ruling their lives. Hence Jefferson Davis, a good ol' southern boy as the president of the confederacy.

If I remember my history correctly one South Carolina had the right to succeed from the union but the north would not let it. Also the north was going to place tariffs on the products shipped out of the South.

The civil war had nothing to do with slavery, and the only reason the Lincoln introduced abolition was that the war was going badly and he was concerned about re-election. The war was a war of secession, whereby Lincoln had refused to allow several southern states to withdraw from the union. Abraham Lincoln appears to have been given a great name in history for something that he was not reponsible for. Many of his advisors had recommended the abolition of slavery for years and Lincoln was not interested. When his political career was in danger he was prepared to try anything.

i think the breaking away from the union of the confederacy was just as threatening to the union than any notion of slavery blessed be

Slavery was the symbol of States' rights vs. The Federal GovernmentIf The South could cede from the Union, U.S.A. wouldn't have been as strong. And The U.S.A. would have remained the size it was in 1861.that would mean no Alaska or Hawaii.And with Slavery in the South and industry in the North, both countries would be poorer. Would the Abolishionists let the North trade with the South?

states rights