The Civil War: Causes and Battles

A simply amazing and educational re-enactment.

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[gamefan2008]

@jposh707 I like turtles.

[jposh707]

Exactly. Why else would the plantation owners have freaked out so hard whenever a slave ran away? They treated it like a major crisis. It could not be tolerated.

[todddoom]

The south left the union to prevent what we have today, a government that is taking controlling more and more of our lives. The phrase "states right" has to do with taxes. The south was paying most of the taxes and the money was being spent up north. If you don't believe me do a search for "Morrill Tariff."

[MasterWooten]

Slavery was the MAIN argument. States's rights was merely a legal cover for the main issue slavery just as states rights would be the argument in the 1960s when the chief argument was desegregation.

[theyXXcallXXmeXXkyle]

slavery actually was the cause of the civil war. Slavery brought up state rights which is the other huge reason for the Civil War. If you hear someone saying state right is the cause then they are correct and if a different person says slavery is the cause then they are correct too. Slavery and state rights go hand and hand.

[BubbaLee2]

slavery is terrible ,however it was a small part of why southern men fought--i know i talked to my grandfather who lived 95 years and died in early 90's---he talked to many older men as a young man who had fought in the war and almost to the man it was because of the improachment of the federal forces!!!!!!

[dorado90]

Slavery only played a small part in the war. Like 1/10 of the war causes.

[danielmedina630]

Civil war was not about slavery it was about Great Britain's monetary influence on the United States and funding the Confederacy in seceding from the Union, I will cite only a few quotes from president Lincoln himself.

[danielmedina630]

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy"

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it"

[danielmedina630]

"I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe"

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

[mkeithharris]

all of these people who insist (still) that secession and the ultimate cause of the war was not over slavery ought to read a newspaper from the 1850s. Southern slaveholders were scared to death that the growing movement against the expansion of the institution would eventually turn where it already existed. Southern leaders said secession was about the protection of slavery in 1861....and didn't change their tune until the war was over.

[mrrast2u]

This is all a crock of shit., The war was caused because of the Morill tariff,,look it up, and Ft. Sumter was being resupplied, going against the rights of a sovereign. You can look that up to,,,,