Oops.
The 1861-65 Civil War between the northern and southern states was principally caused by slavery.
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The war was caused by secession. The big issue was slavery.
“The 1861-65 Civil War between the northern and southern states was principally caused by slavery.”
Really? That’s why the Union invaded Kentucky, right?
(/duh)
cue stupid and historically inaccurate discussions everywhere.
I guess people now think the Civil War was a good thing.
The 1861-65 Civil War between the northern and southern states was principally caused by slavery.
I will respectfully disagree with the author’s statement. Slavery was already dying and on its way out. The war was about States Rights...and had nothing to do with slavery until Lincoln threw that in. It is called the “War of Northern Aggression” for a reason in the South.....red
if Obama can pander to Islamic terrorists, Trump can pander to Civil War re-enacters.
The President was referring to President Andrew Jackson's handling of the Nullification Crisis.
ML/NJ
The Civil War ended slavery, killed states rights and created a nations of tax serfs ruled by DC.
The older I get, the more I realize that any result of the Civil War was not worth the loss of 600,000 men killed and millions maimed and wounded.
But by the time the first shots are fired, all rational thought has flown out the window.
It seems every generation has to relearn the lessons of war.
There is a lot of information on the whole subject to be found at
www.institute.org
Bullshite
We should have picked our own cotton.
“Trump stirs debate”
translation:
“Maybe this is something we can use against him.”
“principally caused by slavery.”
OMG. Typical demagoguery.
And don’t the Brits love to push it.
If the conflict was over slavery, why didn’t Congress and Lincoln pass a law making it illegal?
Because it wasn’t over slavery and the north, including DC, had many slaves. The war of Northern Agression was fought because the Confederate States wanted out of the United States.
Slaves caused The Civil War. I knew it.
Well, Andy certainly opposed nullification, so he would have opposed secession too. Still, I'm not a big Jackson fan since he founded the party that has become "the never-ending source of all our national afflictions." And Jacksonian Dems were every bit as crooked as their modern descendants.
Of course, Jackson would have been in his nineties and beginning his eighth consecutive term by the time the Civil War happened (and he died in 1845), so I have no idea where Trump is going with this.
(Here is some interesting context.)
On April 7, 1798, the fifth Congress passed an act that imposed a three hundred dollar per slave penalty on persons convicted of performing the illegal importation of slaves. It was an indication of the type of behavior and course of events soon to become commonplace in the Congress. In the Slave Trade Act of 1800, Congress outlawed U.S. citizens’ investment in the trade, and the employment of U.S. citizens on foreign vessels involved in the trade.
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect in 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution.
However, it was not always well enforced and slaves continued to be imported in *limited* numbers.
This meant that by the time of the American Civil War, in 1861, there were almost no originally imported slaves left, only their descent. That is, children born into slavery.
So the way to end domestic slavery should have been through a process of gradualism, a “phasing out” of slavery. So how could this be accomplished?
1) Taxation. Gradually make slave owning prohibitively expensive. Establishing high slave transfer taxes as well.
2) Require better and better living conditions for the slaves, to include schooling for children, mandatory instruction in Christianity along with weekly church attendance, etc. All very slowly.
3) By 1816, the American Colonization Society supported the migration of free African Americans to the continent of Africa. It helped to found the colony of Liberia in 1821–22 on the coast of West Africa as a place for free-born American blacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society
The southern states and slaveholders could have been offered many incentives to encourage slaveholders to eventually manumit (free) their slaves on condition they be transported back to Africa, and thus not become public charges. Done over the course of 50-75 years, slavery would have diminished to just a shadow of its former self.
Granted all of this would have taken a lot of time, but it might have removed so much of the core reasons for the Civil War that it wouldn’t have happened.