Indeed. Lots of Union generals owned slaves. So how can you say the war was about freeing the slaves??
Because that's why the South Went to war, dummy. They went to war because they realized that Free States had enough electors to take the presidency and when enough new states entered the union as free states, they wouldn't have much influence in the Senate, either.
AFTER the war, when they realized how stupid they looked, that's when you had them all talking about "tariffs" and "Economic issues".
But, um, no, it was always about slavery.
es - tariffs were a very big issue back then and the south said they paid most of the tariffs and the money was then spent in the north!
Nope.
The Tariff that everyone talks about, the Morrill Tariff, didn't take effect until AFTER the Southern States started seceeding.
The Morrill Tariff, a generally forgotten law, is said by some to be the real reason for the Civil War.
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It has sometimes been alleged that Lincoln was responsible for the Morill Tariff. That idea does not stand up to scrutiny.
The idea of a new protectionist tariff did come up during the
election campaign of 1860, and
Abraham Lincoln, as the Republican candidate, did support the idea of a new tariff. The tariff was an important issue in some states, most notably Pennsylvania, where it was seen as beneficial to factory workers in various industries. But the tariff was not a major issue during the election, which was, naturally, dominated by the big issue of the time, enslavement.
The tariff's popularity in Pennsylvania helped influence the decision of President Buchanan, a native of Pennsylvania, to sign the bill into law. Though he was often accused of being a "doughface," a northerner who often supported policies that favored the South, Buchanan sided with his home state's interests in supporting the Morrill Tariff.
Furthermore, Lincoln did not even hold public office when the Morrill Tariff was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Buchanan. It is true that the law went into effect early in Lincoln's term, but any claims that Lincoln created the law to penalize the South would not be logical.
America was founded on secession, you moron. Nothing wrong with secession. In the 1950-80 era most african nations seceded from the foreign countries that controlled them. Around 1990 all the states in the USSR seceded and became independent countries.
The US didn't secede from the UK over slavery.
The USSR didn't break up over slavery.