HELP ME PLEASE....debate

learn to spell correctly.

Chill Bob, Melsahusler is just in a rush

http://www.course-notes.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1163

This gives a better explanation than I can at the moment...

Slavery was only one of the many causes, check out states rights =)

hahahaha. This kinda question makes me giggle. I'll give my response, and give it in the style my APUSH teacher says it. (goes to advanced reply page because this needs formatting.....)

He who wins the war normally gets to the write the history of the war. The only time this is not the case has been the American Civil War, where the south lost AND wrote the history. Note that Lee was the greatest general of the Civil War and that Grant was nothing but a lowly drunkard! Many people in the south say "The war was for states rights!" But one must consider, what was the PRIMARY state right they were fighting for? IT WAS SLAVERY. The south was fighting for their right to have slaves. Nothing else. They seceded when Lincoln was elected because they feared his anti-slavery stance.

Anybody can see that slavery WAS the MAIN CAUSE of the civil war. You simply can't overplay it. Civil War and Reconstruction history was re-evaluated in the 1970s, anyone that says otherwise to what i've said is going by that pre-1970s stance.

Yes, they do. It was more over cotton then over slavery.

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Spearhead wrote:Yes, they do. It was more over cotton then over slavery.

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You lose so hard. The two things are intertwined. Without one the other is not needed/doesn't exist/or becomes marginal.

It's foolish to say that the civil war was over slavery. The slavery issue was merely an excuse to succeed from the union over the larger issue of states rights in general.

These are the three main causes of the Civil War: slavery, slaver, and slavery. That is a direct quote from my APUSH teacher, since it wasn't strictly the freedom of slaves that was the issue. There were states' rights, in which the South had an immidiate voting privalage, thanks to the 3/5 cause. There were the social aspects of slavery; the poor white people of the south always had a way to gain higher status- buy a slave. There was the economical reason, that the states were basing their whole structure on slave labor for production, the list goes on and on. So it wasn't the moral reasons against slavery that fed and fueled the war, but many combining factors, intertwined togeather that created the chaos that was the Civil War.