re: In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools

Lincoln wanted to collect the tariffs that Andrew Jackson did not. War was the means to ensure it would get done and suppress resistance, both in the CSA and the North.

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"My policy sought only to collect the Revenue (a 40 percent federal sales tax on imports to Southern States under the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861)." reads paragraph 5 of Lincoln's First Message to the U.S. Congress, penned July 4, 1861.

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The bankers in the North were still big mad they weren't screwing over the South since 1830.