Here we go again. The war consisted entirely of the North invading the South. It is the motives of the North alone that are important in analyzing the causes of the war. The war could have ended any time the North decided to let "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" actually happen somewhere.
Yes, slavery was used as a rallying cry to get support for secession in three of the state declarations of secession. But the main issues were the tariff and the victory of the Republican party, a party that publicly declared itself to be "a party of the North pledged against the South."
Did the secessionists want “government of the people, by the people, and for the people?” Do you know what percentage of the adult population of South Carolina were free, what percentage were allowed to vote?
“Yes, slavery was used as a rallying cry to get support for secession in three of the state declarations of secession. But the main issues were the tariff and the victory of the Republican party, a party that publicly declared itself to be “a party of the North pledged against the South.”
So you are seriously telling me that most of these states just got really hacked off about a tariff and the election of a guy that hadn’t even been sworn-in, and just decided to up and leave the union?
So either they were all about protecting their enslavement of black Americans...Or they were hothead reactionaries.
Either way, the CSA was a basket-case from the go.
The North didn’t fire the first shot. The South did steal military bases that didn’t rightfully belong to it.
ROTFLMAO!!!! That's like the Japanese saying that World War II consisted entirely of the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.