In his famous Gettysburg Address, delivered at the dedication of a cemetery for the fallen Union soldiers of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln eloquently said, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
The Missouri Compromise and Bloody Kansas had nothing to do with tariffs, but the expansion of slavery. Wars never have a single cause, but the main one here was slavery.
Not surprised you failed to mention the cause of the war was not the issue of slavery, but the imposition of unfair taxation/tariffs placed upon southern states by norther business men and their hired politicians enacting the unfair legislations. Slavery was not an issue for southerners as 98% of them did not own slaves. But IF it was - why weren't slaves truly free after the Emancipation Proclamation - i.e. slaves could not own guns until amendments to the Constitution were enacted later on. Including further later amendments to give women (black & white) the right to vote and later on American Indians the right to vote. Had the Black Slaves truly had 'equal rights', then there would have been no need for the Civil Rights Marches in the 60's, Affirmative Action legislation with government hiring quotas, college admission quotas, housing discrimination laws, etc etc etc?
First of all, it was the Confederates themselves who said the war was about slavery. There are many politicians and newspapers from the beginning of the war saying as much. second of all, black Americans had the right to vote when the Constitution was first ratified, and later amendments were merely restoring that right by overriding state laws that had been passed to the contrary since constitutional ratification. The Emancipation Proclamation was limited in scope because Lincoln was staying within his constitutional and legal powers, which at the time did not include immediate and full civil rights for all black Americans in every single section of the country. Unlike modern presidents, Lincoln actually believed in staying within the limits of the law. Finally, the civil rights movement was necessary precisely because they Confederates, namely the Democrats, refused to agree to any progress in emancipating and ensuring rights for former slaves. If you look at the history of civil rights, it was a history of Republicans attempting to ensure equal rights while Democrats did everything they possibly could at every level of the government and through terrorist organizations to prevent that from happening. The Civil War did not end. The Confederates simply transferred their battlefield to the halls of government. Jim Crow, the KKK, etc. were Confederate/Democrat movements
The "Tariff of Abominations" 1828. Forcing the agrarian South to buy machinery from the industrialized North at hugely inflated prices over British imports.
Slaves in the North weren't freed until passage of the 13th Amendment , December 6, 1865. SEVEN MONTHS after Appomattox.
The Missouri Compromise and Bloody Kansas had nothing to do with tariffs, but the expansion of slavery. Wars never have a single cause, but the main one here was slavery.
Not surprised you failed to mention the cause of the war was not the issue of slavery, but the imposition of unfair taxation/tariffs placed upon southern states by norther business men and their hired politicians enacting the unfair legislations. Slavery was not an issue for southerners as 98% of them did not own slaves. But IF it was - why weren't slaves truly free after the Emancipation Proclamation - i.e. slaves could not own guns until amendments to the Constitution were enacted later on. Including further later amendments to give women (black & white) the right to vote and later on American Indians the right to vote. Had the Black Slaves truly had 'equal rights', then there would have been no need for the Civil Rights Marches in the 60's, Affirmative Action legislation with government hiring quotas, college admission quotas, housing discrimination laws, etc etc etc?
First of all, it was the Confederates themselves who said the war was about slavery. There are many politicians and newspapers from the beginning of the war saying as much. second of all, black Americans had the right to vote when the Constitution was first ratified, and later amendments were merely restoring that right by overriding state laws that had been passed to the contrary since constitutional ratification. The Emancipation Proclamation was limited in scope because Lincoln was staying within his constitutional and legal powers, which at the time did not include immediate and full civil rights for all black Americans in every single section of the country. Unlike modern presidents, Lincoln actually believed in staying within the limits of the law. Finally, the civil rights movement was necessary precisely because they Confederates, namely the Democrats, refused to agree to any progress in emancipating and ensuring rights for former slaves. If you look at the history of civil rights, it was a history of Republicans attempting to ensure equal rights while Democrats did everything they possibly could at every level of the government and through terrorist organizations to prevent that from happening. The Civil War did not end. The Confederates simply transferred their battlefield to the halls of government. Jim Crow, the KKK, etc. were Confederate/Democrat movements
The "Tariff of Abominations" 1828. Forcing the agrarian South to buy machinery from the industrialized North at hugely inflated prices over British imports.
Slaves in the North weren't freed until passage of the 13th Amendment , December 6, 1865. SEVEN MONTHS after Appomattox.
The victors, as usual, wrote the history books.