Thread 150893601

>Alright, here's your last question. What was the cause of the Civil War?
>Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists, economic factors, both domestic and international played a significant...
>Hey hey, just...just say slavery.
>Slavery it is, sir!

This answer upsets libtatds

>>150893657
christ you're dumb

>>150893657
>>150893686
Oh here we go again...

sneed

>>150893601 (OP)
SECESSION was about Slavery.

The WAR was about the State Rights to the military facilities installed on their soil, and the expansion of the Federal Government. It was also almost entirely encroaching on said states and the citizens of said states who have and still receive the brunt of the scorn for the crimes of their leaders.

The Union wasn't some righteous force setting things right in the world against evil slaveholders, or it would have gone after them instead of the infrastructure and people who didn't have the slaves in the first place, and couldn't be expected to give up their whole land to rebel against entrenched elite forces. Decrying the common sharecropper as some uniquely malbred individual is just you fighting the culture war so you don't have to fight the class war, which so-called leftists really don't seem to have a problem with anymore.

Political bait threads on /co/ are silly.

Heil Hitler.

It actually is pretty interesting
It's important not to minimize the fact slavery was the main cause of the American Civil War. It's important to stress that the concept of owning another human being is fundamentally wrong. However, it is at least worth considering why they felt so strongly about it to understand their perspective. The South was not as industrialized as the North and was still very agricultural. To some extent, this was their own fault by choosing not to industrialize, but having an agricultural area is still important, so perhaps that was their intention. The idea of losing this free labor was seen as a deathknell for a community who didn't know anything else.
There is also more nuance regarding opinions about slavery than is often said, dating back to the founding. A vast majority of the Founding Fathers viewed slavery as an abomination, even if they themselves held slaves. It was viewed as too important to the economy, and anyone who did not have slaves would be vastly outperformed by those who did. The issue was kicked down the road at the time to maintain unity. Thomas Jefferson, who only 30 years ago was idolized by Democratic president Bill Clinton (going as far as to call himself "the new Thomas Jefferson" on the campaign trail), despite all the mud slinged at him posthumously, was one of them, and repeatedly tried to insert lines outlawing slavery in western expansions but was voted down by Southern representatives

>>150893657
You mean red necks.

>>150893912
>>150893686

Thank you for proving my point

Lincoln was dictator.

>>150893849
Leftists:
The north faught slavery because they believed blacks should free. They shed their blood for it and died

Also leftists:
United States is so racist

>>150893849
Fort Sumpter was ceded to the Union by the state government some 30 years prior.