” As long as the South was dominant in running the Federal government, they were happy”
When exactly was that??
“It was only when they lost the election of 1860 that they rebelled.”
You don’t know history. Seriously, read a book, and not a public school book. A real book on history.
Like this one, I suppose:
It’s pretty good, goes through all the political disputes leading up the the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise, the Know-Nothing movement, the Mexican War, the abolitionist movement - it’s all there.
Some people seem to be completely unaware of the New England secessionist movement(s) in the very early 1800s.
The Pierce and Buchanan administrations were both pro-South. The Supreme Court was pro-Southern and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, this along with the inability of slave-owners to control Kansas, broke the sectional truce that began in 1850. But it was the hysterical Southern reaction to John Brown’s raid that led to secession. Not that this fears were totally misplaced. There was a huge store of arms at Harper’s Ferry. If the raid had been conducted by someone not so totally incompetent as Brown, the radicals could have caused havoc.
” As long as the South was dominant in running the Federal government, they were happy”
When exactly was that??
“It was only when they lost the election of 1860 that they rebelled.”
You don’t know history. Seriously, read a book, and not a public school book. A real book on history.
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Tariffs were said to be the complaint of the southern states but th e laws were changed in favor of the south before Lincoln’s election.
When the border states refused to join their complaint was lost.
They chose war