This guy says that the reason for the civil war was to preserve the union. And he said the union was in jeopardy due to the international bankers who did not want the U.S. to be able to print it's own 'greenback' currency. Apparently, the bankers who print the money want a monopoly, globally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmqAX0Fqw0
Very odd notion. The US was on the gold standard, which didn't let anybody "print the money," prior to the war. And there was essentially no demand by anybody to go to a different currency system.
The CSA and USA started printing money to help pay for the war.
IOW, paper money didn't cause the war, the war caused paper money.
Ahh, the old Rothschilds/Jews/international bankers did it meme.
Sorry, but I have better things to do than watch 2.5 hours of somebody viewing history thru their anti-semitic lens.
Were the Rothschilds influential? You bet. Did they or do they “control the world?” Nope.