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Bloody Bill reflected the atrocities that been perpetrated upon Missouri back on the thugs that refused to allow Missouri to secede as its legislature had chosen. Lincoln could not afford to allow Missouri to join the south, as it would have tipped the balance in the US Senate. As a result, the...

Remember... history is written by the victors, in this case the Union. Americans no longer question that the civil war was about slavery. There was more to it than that. History books ignore the fact that the northern industrial complex could not afford to lose the resources of the south due to s...