07-08-2015, 07:39 PM
(07-08-2015, 09:11 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The problem with trying to argue "states' rights" is that it's a state's right to abolish federal laws that restricted slavery in some form or a territory's right to have slavery. The problem with trying to argue and "economic factors" is that it was an argument over how the South's economy would not survive without slavery.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/01/why-do-people-believe-myths-about-the-confederacy-because-our-textbooks-and-monuments-are-wrong/
Reality of the Civil War has been completely distorted by Southern sympathizers. You have states that overwhelmingly supported the Union littered with Confederate monuments and only have a handful of Union ones. Textbooks openly lie about reasons for secession, even when the declarations themselves stated that slavery was the primary reason.
Nah. If you wanna sum up the war in one line, it was about the federal govt flexing its might. If it were solely about slavery, Then that practice woulda been over in the North. But it wasn't.
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