Sounds good, but the causes of the war of Northern Agression was due to the restrictive taxes and tarriffs levied on the Southern states by the Northern states in an attempt to keep Britan out of the textile trade that the Northerners were trying to protect after the invention of the cotton gin and bailer. thats not what the revisionists want you to think, though.
Exactly right.
Northern textile manufacturing was practically 100% dependent on Southern cotton. Think of Mass., Conn., and R.I.
Also, the Northeast was the shipping capital of the western hemisphere. With Southern goods all prepared to go directly to Europe on European or Southern ships, the New York shippers, bankers, and insurers were facing staggering losses.
But one more thing..........access to the West. Would it come through New York or New Orleans? Big mess for Northern businesses.
That is when they went to Washington to pledge the state militias to Lincoln and the Union army.
No, the war did not start with secession. It started as soon as the North learned the real losses they were about to experience.
Huh?
You may call it northern aggression, but if that's the case a little northern aggression was the best thing that ever happened for honest southerners by getting the degenerate slavery-based regime off their necks. In many places in the south, the advancing Union army was greeted as liberators. Some aggression!
Nevermind the fact that that the Confederate Constitution is practically a line-by-line copy of the U.S. Constitution, and contained all the phrases and clauses which had led to disagreement among the states in the original Union -- including a Supremacy Clause, a Commerce Clause, and a Necessary and Proper Clause, thereby giving the "confederate federal government" virtually all the powers that the U.S. federal government had, and even a few clauses which made the national government more powerful than the original U.S. version. They could have opted for a weaker federal government like the U.S. originally had in 1774, but of course, none of the slavery loving "framers" in 1861 choose to do so. Funny how that worked out.
It's purely coincidental that the confederate Constitution say NOTHING different about taxes, tariffs, textile trade, states rights, sovereignty, right to secede, and interstate commerce, and the ONLY major difference in the confederate constitution is the following "right to slavery" clause NOT found in the U.S. Constitution: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed [by Congress] "
"It's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery... is his natural and normal condition."
-- Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, on the creation of the Confederate government
Yep, clearly all about tariffs.