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To: Casloy
A civil war is two or more factions fighting for control of a single government. The South wanted to create their own government apart from the Union.
191 posted on 02/05/2006 9:04:22 PM PST by libertarianben (Looking for sanity and his hard to find cousin common sense)
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To: libertarianben; Casloy
A civil war is two or more factions fighting for control of a single government. The South wanted to create their own government apart from the Union.

A rebellion is defined as "open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government." Can we agree that the southern actions were a rebellion?

199 posted on 02/06/2006 4:03:33 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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