re: Why are tariffs and illegal acts overlooked as a cause of the civil war?

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To the victors go the spoils

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To the victors go the spoils

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The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was an increased import tariff in the United States, adopted on March 2, 1861, during the administration of President James Buchanan, a Democrat

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Parmen, maybe reading comprehension is not one of your strong suits. But Lincoln called for the 75,000 volunteers after Ft.Sumter . The whole habeus corpus thing happened after hostilities had started and was well underway....nice try though.

It reall was not tarrifs that got this whole thing brewing, but it was slavery and its expansion that set it off. The North which had been going through a population boom since about 1825 now had numbers on its side. The businessmen in New York, Boston and Philadelphia were not in a position to allow for slavery. It was bad business for their economic structure, couple this with the increase in Irish and German immigrants to the North and their migration to western lands like Kansas and Nebraska in particular and you start to see why the South was threatened. You should read up on Bloody Kansas leading up to the Civil War. Neither side was psrticularly angelic. You had Missourians from the Dixie Belt hopping over the border to vote in Kansan elections. You had New Englandets shipping immigrants and poor whites to Kansas.

Also the Fugitive Slave Act really pissed off Northern governors. You basically had repo agents moving with relative immunity through border states and kidnapping black people who lived there to bring them "home" to their loving masters.

The Western lands and their resistance to slavery boxed in the Southern Planter class that wanted to expand, but could not. They were gradually losing their influence in Congress in both the HOR and Senate because the new states coming in starting in the 1850's wanted nothing to do with slavery.

Don't kid yourself, slavery and its economic system was a big f-ing deal. The South needed to rid themselves of the Abolitionist North in order to expand its agricultural economy.

So if party’s flipped in the last 150 years, ...Robert Byrd, Senator from West Virginia who died in 2010,...Hillary Clinton’s mentor....AND at one time a GRAND WIZARD of the KKK.....a Democrat!

The party’s flipped story, is just that. A story, not THE story.

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tariffs that so impoverished the South

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Can you show me the roaring southern economy outside the few slave owners before the war?
Can you show anything other than a single crop economy?
Can you show economic mobility and innovation in a economy that consisted of just one single product?
Can you suggest that having one product to sell is a good idea in the long term for any economy?


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To Overbrook:
No legal barrier to leaving the union does not equate to treason.

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No legal barrier to leaving the union does not equate to treason.

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I'll give you that it wasn't legally treason but in a real sense it was treasonous to the idea of "The United" States of America and attacking a US Military installation was an act of war in every sense

The South was rich in agriculture. Still is.

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The main prewar agricultural products of the Confederate States were cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane, with hogs, cattle, grain and vegetable plots. Pre-war agricultural production estimated for the Southern states is as follows (Union states in parentheses for comparison): 1.7 million horses (3.4 million), 800,000 mules (100,000), 2.7 million dairy cows (5 million), 5 million sheep (14 million ...

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And I always bring up the poor and rash decision of Carolina to attack Ft Sumter when the South was not yet ready to. South Carolina forced everyone's hand.

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The South wanted war and thought they would win...

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The Southern lag in industrial development did not result from any inherent economic disadvantages. There was great wealth in the South, but it was primarily tied up in the slave economy. In 1860, the economic value of slaves in the United States exceeded the invested value of all of the nation's railroads, factories, and banks combined. On the eve of the Civil War, cotton prices were at an all-time high. The Confederate leaders were confident that the importance of cotton on the world market, particularly in England and France, would provide the South with the diplomatic and military assistance they needed for victory.

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Oopsie-daisy

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The Morrill Tariff of 1861

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Was de facto Republican legislation. It was inconceivably inflammatory to declining intersectional relations when Buchanan signed it into law. Seven states had already seceded. It sealed Buchanan's fate as the worst POTUS in US history.

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The Morrill Tariff of 1861
Was de facto Republican legislation. It was inconceivably inflammatory to declining intersectional relations when Buchanan signed it into law. Seven states had already seceded. It sealed Buchanan's fate as the worst POTUS in US history.

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Maybe so, maybe not, I'm not familiar enough to have an opinion on that, but its NOT justification for the Confederacy which had already been formed NOR is justification for the war the Confederacy started within 3 weeks of its signing.