Borrowing. Inflating. Blockading trade from the South. Creating fake money. None of this deals with what *WOULD HAVE* happened if they had not started a war with the South.
They forced all shipping into Northern ports, when those ships would have rather gone to Southern ports at that time.
Now what is I am failing to grasp?
You are failing to grasp what would have happened in the absence of a war. The South would have continued to gain wealth, and the North would have been suffering a massive economic decline.
If that’s the case, why didn’t those ships go to Southern ports before the war? Do I have to post the 1859 tariff map again?
You are failing to grasp what would have happened in the absence of a war. The South would have continued to gain wealth, and the North would have been suffering a massive economic decline.
LOL. The North was growing fast before the war, and only grew faster after. The South was a backwater because of the slave system and King Cotton. There were a handful of very wealthy and the vast majority of whites lived hand to mouth.
You remind me of an interview I saw years ago with Shelby Foote. He said as a kid growing up in Mississippi, he and his friends would fantasize about what they would have done to make sure the South won the Civil War. You seem to play the same game on revising facts to make the South like like they were not the idiots they were.