[brownsfan]

"Who ever "taught" you that, did you a major disservice, not just in American history, but in Economics 101."

Care to illuminate?

[A Cyrenian]

I'd like to hear this history lesson as well.

[Ditto]

"The real cause of the Civil War was the South selling raw materials to England, (where they got a better price). This had the result of depriving the North of much needed raw material for manufacturing. The North moved to create tariffs in their favor, and the South moved to suceed."

Surely.

Aside for the recommending that you familiarize yourself with the forty years of escalating sectional tensions arising from slavery beginning with the Missouri Compromise, followed by Texas Admission, The Wilmont Proviso, The Compromise of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, The Dred Scott Decision, the Fugitive Slave Act, "Bloody Kansas," Harpers Ferry, and culminating in the election of a president representing the "Free Soil Movement", you need to understand that tariffs, under the US Constitution, can not be and have never been applied to exports, from the South or anywhere else. They are only applied to imports, and had existed since the first days of the Republic, and were at their lowest levels ever in 1860 when secession began. You also need to understand that one of the first acts of the Confederate Congress was to enact a set of tarrifs nearly identical to the set that applied before secession.