This video looks at the question "What caused the Civil War." The video specifically looks at differences between the North and South and the outbreak of the Civil War.
"I feel impelled, Mr. President [of the convention], to vote for this Ordinance [of secession] by an overruling necessity. Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery" - Speech of E.S. Dargan, in the Convention of Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861
What caused the civil war???? The reason is written in The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States. They said the reason and wrote it down before it started. We have no reason, 150 years down the road, to manufacture reasons when the people that started the war put it in writing.
The South was Pro-Slavery and the North was Anti Slavery. Pro Slavery meant slaves from Kentucky could immigrate with their owners to the western territories. Pro-Slavery meant the western territory was reserved for free white labor to the exclusion of the slaves or free black men. It was not a moral position but based on white supremacy. Slavery was legal in the United States. The union was a compact between the states. The states all should have equal access to the common territory not yet part of the United States. By limiting immigrants from the South, but allowing immigrants from the north, new states would side with the industrial north in Congress on issues such as a tariff and a national bank. The south left the union over principle. When the south left the Union, all that territory belonged to the United States so why not let the south go. The reason was because a free trade Federal Republic (CSA) would have devastated northern industry. Southerners would have purchased their goods from Europe instead of the USA. There would have been massive economic devastation. The south was the number one purchaser of northern manufactured goods. Today, the central bank (Fed) is destroying the dollar. This will devastate and impoverish the United States. Thus, the north had to conquer the south had to control it. What is going on today leads right back to that tyrant Lincoln who by the way disdained black people.
in my school book-club, we watched this video because we are going to read a book about slavery and the Civil war. This video really helped my book-club understand the Civil war. Thank you for posting this video ~ Me and my small book-club
"The people of the northern States have organized a political party, purely sectional in its character; the central and controlling idea of which is hostility to the institution of AFRICAN SLAVERY, as it exists in the southern States, and that party has elected a President and Vice President of the United States, pledged to administer the government upon principles inconsistent with the rights, and subversive of the interests of the people of the southern States." Arkansas Secession Convention
Yes, you need to read all of the document though. Slavery was legal in 1860. The USA was a Federal Republic with slavery fighting a war with the CSA which was a Federal Republic with slavery. There were 500,000 slaves in the north and about 3.5 million in the south. Slavery was still legal in New Jersey and Delaware as well as the border states which remained in the union. The north was complicit in slavery. It was the New England states that controlled the shipping industry and were involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Northern factories used slave cotton in their factories. Northern banks provided loans to southerners to purchase slaves. It is important to remember that 75 percent of southerners did not own any slaves. The north only wanted to eliminate slavery in the western territories. See Corwin Amendment. The Anti-Slavery position was the western territory was for free white labor only. This was not a moral position but a racist position. They wanted to keep free blacks out of the territory but why? For reasons of political power in Congress. If new states joined the union and were pro-northern, they would be able to get enough votes to pass unconstitutional legislation such as the American System. This was high tariffs, handouts to corporations, a railroad, and subsidies for internal improvements which were not constitutional.
@@libertycoffeehouse3944 Nope. Every Northern state had acted to end slavery before the war, and even as early as 1820 there will only be about 3000 slaves left in the North, well before it was industrialized, and that number is falling. (Macmillan Encyclopedia, "Slavery In The Civil War Era"). Or as Professor Paul Finkelman put it, _"By 1804, all of the states north of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware had either ended slavery outright or had passed legislation to gradually abolish the institution. Thus, after 1804, Slavery was peculiar to the South."_ But meanwhile the Southern states not only refused to try to give it up, they grew it and embraced it even more so that even at the time of the Revolution: _"The Southern Colonies of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, by contrast, were not merely societies with slaves but "slave societies" organized economically, socially, and politically around the principle and practice of human bondage. In 1760, 88 percent of the 325,806 slaves in the British mainland colonies lived in the South."_ Elizabeth R. Varon "Disunion, the coming of the American Civil War" p17
And all the border states were Southern slave states that were retained in the Union one way or another. Many were divided internally themselves like Missouri that fought its own Civil War within the larger one. Kentucky had governments that claimed to represent it on both sides. Maryland had divided loyalties although the weakness of slavery there, economic ties and existing loyalty to the Union and the Federal Military presence itself saw it side with the Union. Only in Delaware with less than 1800 slaves was there no secession movement. In the other three states it had to be suppressed.
@@libertycoffeehouse3944 The Antebellum South itself questions your intellectual integrity. _"Can there be a doubt in any intelligent mind, that the object which the Black Republican party has in view is the ultimate extinction of slavery in the United States? To doubt it, is to cast the imputation of hypocracy and imbecility upon the majority of the people of every Northern State, who have stood by this party through all its trials and struggles, to its ultimate triumph in the election Lincoln._ _In these declarations Mr. Lincoln has covered the entire abolition platform - hatred of slavery, disregard of judicial decisions, negro equality, and, as a matter of course, the ultimate extinction of slavery. None of these doctrines, however, are left to inference, so far as Mr. Lincoln is concerned, as we see he has avowed them in the plainest and clearest language. They are not exceeded by the boldness of Seward, the malignity of Giddings, or the infamy of Garrison. It was the knowledge of these facts which induced his nomination by the Republican party; and by the free circulation which has been given to them in the canvass, it would seem that Mr. Lincoln is indebted to their popularity for his election._ _There is one dogma of this party which has been so solemnly enunciated, both by their national conventions and Mr. Lincoln that it is worth of serious consideration. I allude to the doctrine of negro equality. The stereotyped expression of the Declaration of Independence that "All men are born equal," has been perverted from its plain and truthful meaning, and made the basis of a political dogma which strikes at the very foundations of the institution of slavery. Mr. Lincoln and his party assert that this doctrine of equality applies to the negro, and necessarily there can exist no such thing as property in our equals. Upon this point both Mr. Lincoln and his party have spoken with a distinctiveness that admits of no question or equivocation. If they are right, the institution of slavery as it exists in the Southern States is in direct violation of the fundamental principles of our Government; and to say that they would not use all the powers in their hands to eradicate the evil and restore the Government to its "ancient faith," would be to write themselves down self-convicted traitors both to principle and duty._ _In the election which just transpired, the Black Republicans did not hesitate to announce, defend and justify the doctrines and principles which I have attributed to them. During the progress of the canvass I obtained copies of the documents which they were circulating at the North, with a view of ascertaining the grounds upon which they were appealing to the people for their support and confidence. With the exception of a few dull speeches in favor of a protective tariff, intended for circulation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and still fewer number of pitiful appeals for squandering the public lands, the whole canvass was conducted by the most bitter and malignant appeals to the anti-slavery sentiment of the North._ _Fellow-citizens of Georgia, I have endeavored to place before you the facts of the case, in plain and unimpassioned language; and I should feel that I had done injustice to my own convictions, and been unfaithful to you, if I did not in conclusion warn you against the danger of delay and impress upon you the hopelessness of any remedy for these evils short of secession. You have to deal with a shrewd, heartless and unscrupulous enemy, who in their extremity may promise anything, but in the end will do nothing. On the 4th day of March, 1861, the Federal Government will pass into the hands of the Abolitionists. It will then cease to have the slightest claim upon either your confidence or your loyalty; and, in my honest judgment, each hour that Georgia remains thereafter a member of the Union will be an hour of degradation, to be followed by certain and speedy ruin...'"_ - Howell Cobb (future President of the Provisional Confederate Congress), December 6, 1860 _”If Mr. Lincoln places among us his Judges, District Attorneys, Marshals, Post Masters, Custom House officers, etc., etc., by the end of his adminstration, with the control of these men, and the distribution of public patronage, he will have succeeded in dividing us to an extent that will destroy all our moral powers, and prepare us to tolerate the running of a Republican ticket, in most of the States of the South, in 1864. If this ticket only secured five or ten thousand votes in each of the Southern States, it would be as large as the abolition party was in the North a few years since. It would hold a ballance [*sic*] of power between any two political parties into which the people of the South may hereafter be divided. This would soon give it the control of our elections. We would then be powerless, and the abolitionists would press forward, with a steady step, to the accomplishment of their object. They would refuse to admit any other slave States to the Union. They would abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and at the Forts, Arsenals and Dock Yards, within the Southern States, which belong to the United States. They would then abolish the internal slave trade between the States, and prohibit a slave owner in Georgia from carrying his slaves into Alabama or South Carolina, and there selling them. These steps would be taken one at a time, cautiously, and our people would submit. Finally, when we were sufficiently humiliated, and sufficiently in their power, they would abolish slavery in the States. It will not be many years before enough of free States may be formed out of the present territories of the United States, and admitted into the Union, to give them sufficient strength to change the Constitution, and remove all Constitutional barriers which now deny to Congress this power. I do not doubt, therefore, that submission to the administration of Mr. Lincoln will result in the final abolition of slavery. If we fail to resist now, we will never again have the strength to resist.”_ Open letter of Gov. Joseph E. Brown to the Georgia legislature. Dec. 7, 1860 .
@@austinjohnson4890 preserving their tax base and federal property. That's the funny part now when these states say they want to leave the union. The federal government isn't going to give up it's bases or any ports regardless of how you vote. It's also how the US goes to war. We put people in harms way and provoke the potential enemy. Then act sheepish when they respond with violence.
@@edwardclement102 Hey. March 1. 2022. .."Radical Reconstruction". ..This is what "Czar Putin" pushes on Ukraine in his twisted desire for a new Russian Empire! ,(Not Soviet Union, Putin hates Commies!), Using brute force & the most astounding cruelty! Dear "Southern" Soul! Rise up & smite down the Devil Putin!! ...General Lee would smile as Gray Army made Putin's Imperial Army cry for mommy!! You see! Just like old King George lll !! & you, dear FREE AMERICA!! Taught little Imperialist ,Georgy!, a damn fine lesson in Manners!! & Putin will learn those manners !! Stand Strong American Soul!!
FYI, for those in the South that are still in denial that the main cause of the Civil War was slavery. The leaders of the south, in the articles of secession, their personal writings, and in the constitution of the confederacy make no mention of tariffs (as the reason for succession). The Morrill Tariff had not passed in the Senate when 7 of the southern states seceded. The vote, which needed a 2/3 majority to pass, was 25-14 without those 7 southern states or 14 potential votes voting. If they had stayed in the Union, and all voted they could have easily prevented the passage of the Morrill Tariff since it needed 32 votes to pass (60% of 53 votes (39 that voted plus the 14 potential votes, a simple 8-6 against would do)). And the Tariffs set in 1857 were the lowest since 1817. Hence, it was not about tariffs. Or, state rights, since the south only cared about state rights so that they could keep and possibly expand slavery into newly acquired territories. The fugitive slave law in 1950 showed how little the south cared about states rights by forcing the North to help enforce slavery against their state's policy about not having slaves. So grow up -- no one is blaming you -- just some of the adults that lived in the South in 1860.
Either way, as long as you know, the north wasn’t trying to ens slavery to be nice but to hurt the south there were good abolitionist as long as you know, the vast majority of people in the south and not on slaves and as long as you know, the Civil War would’ve 100% happened if slavery wasn’t an issue that I’m fine with you being wrong about Texes
You’re arguing against arguments nobody’s making. Nobody mentioned that specific Tax, and said that’s the reason. The north was literally taxing the south on commodities that vastly disproportionately affected the south. You’re just lying for some reason. You’re saying it was primarily about slavery, and then essentially saying these are the reasons it was about nothing else. So you’re contradicting yourself. Tell us what else was it about you claim it was about other things while simultaneously saying it was about nothing else but slavery by making bad arguments. You’re just making strawman arguments. No one said taxes were the highest they’ve ever been. But if you’re saying, the south didn’t disproportionately commodities affected them more than the north lying or uninformed
There is literally not an ounce of logic tied to the fugitive slave law being brought up in the south not caring about states rights. That’s so incomprehensibly stupid
But I know slavery was an issue, and I’ve never claimed the opposite and people who claim it had nothing to do with slavery or wrong, but you’re equally as wrong as they are, and pretty much everything you said, even if some of us factually true isn’t relevant because that’s not the point anyone’s making. There were separate issues, and removing one of them may have prevented the Civil War, or may not have.
Not only was it illegal to secede the south started stealing union property before the war started. Also slavery... allowing the south to secede peacefully would have meant the spread of slavery. The south was planning on invading Cuba, Mexico, and south America to spread slavery.
The problem is immediately upon seceding a lot of the states rose militias by their governors to seize federal properties and forts within their states. It all then came to a massive head when one such militia in South Carolina decided to open fire on Fort Sumter, officially sparking the Civil War.
Good overview on the causes of the war. A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens is a good resource for those who want to learn more.
"Within the profession [historians] there's virtually no discussion or debate left of slavery as central to the antebellum south and the fundamental cause of secession and the war." Dr. Eric Walther of University of Houston
@Old Corps Marine it was all about slavery...said the Confederate Constitution, which was almost entirely a ripoff of the Union Constitution, EXCEPT all states and all persons were required, REQUIRED, to support and preserve the institution of NEGRO SLAVERY (their exact word). All about slavery of the Black Race. Grow up
@Old Corps Marine Facts don't care about your lies. Only the South insisted that NO ONE could challenge the "right" of "Negro slavery" and put that in their Constitution.
"Many people continue to believe that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery: that the South tried to leave the Union to protect “states’ rights” in general or because it objected to the Republican Party’s stand on tariffs or other unrelated matters. But the record of the North-South conflict during the 40 or so years before the war shows unmistakably that slavery was central to it. And the leaders of the secession movement said as much in 1860-61. They left the Union because they believed that Lincoln’s election imperiled the security of slavery, an institution that they considered essential to their own happiness and prosperity." - Professor Bruce Levine, Apr. 8, 2011
The Professor would probably fail any student with such vast claims on an assignment and no references with facts that backed it up - unless it was something like this that he so strongly wants to believe, himself.
@@davidcarr1133 You want references? I could give you a list of hundreds of books. Of course you never picked up one of those in your life. at least not one by an actual historian. _"Within the profession [historians] there's virtually no discussion or debate left of slavery as central to the antebellum south and the fundamental cause of secession and the war."_ - Dr. Eric Walther of University of Houston .
@@davidcarr1133 - Here are some facts about USA history, the Electoral College, and the civil war. The sources of this information are the USA Constitution and actual events in USA history: The Electoral College was written by terrorists(slavers) to be nothing more than a "welfare benefit" for themselves and other USA terrorists. The E C (+ the 3/5ths clause) awards excessive national governmental and political power to terrorists(slavers). The Electoral College encouraged and rewarded the terrorism of slavery. The Electoral College allowed terrorists to dominate the USA national government until around 1850-1860. The USA's "founding fathers" were the USA's first group of "welfare queens". Ten of the first twelve presidents were terrorists. What happened around 1860 when abolition and the prohibition of slaver terrorism in the new territories greatly reduced the "free stuff" to which the terrorists had become so accustomed? One of the biggest blows to the "terrorist welfare queens" was the prohibition of slaver terrorism in Western territories. That's one of the reasons you hear that old csa/kkk terrorist propaganda phrase, "WE DON'T WANT TO BE RULED BY THE COASTS!". What happened when the terrorist "welfare queens" lost their "free stuff" from the USA government? The csa/kkk was just a MS-13-type gang of butthurt "welfare queens". After causing the civil war, the Electoral College became a "welfare benefit" for states which suppress voting. I wonder which states LOVE to suppress voting .......... might they be the former terrorist states and terrorist sympathizer states?
"Having swept away the counterfactual Myth of the Lost Cause, a historian may briefly state the history of the Civil War as follows. The eleven states that seceded and became the Confederate States of America did so in order to protect the institution of African slavery from a perceived political threat from the majority of the people of the United States who disapproved of the institution." - Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History" p29
Thank you. The Lost Cause Myth given the losing side of the Civil War a chance to re-write history to make it seem that slavery was just this little thing that was going to die out anyway and that it was the big bad North that forced their way upon the poor little South.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act really started the ball of war rolling: Senator Stephan Douglas made Chicago the railroad capital of the country. However, in doing so, he threw away Senator Clay's Missouri Compromise insuring that all the land from the Mexican War would be equally divided between slave & free states maintaining the balance of power. Popular Sovereignty was a disaster stating the people of each state could deside for themselves. "Bleeding Kansas" was the result: a mini civil war 4 years before the big one started.
what caused the civil war is the problem that the superheroes were destroying too much property and needed to be put in check, but Captain America said otherwise..... find out what happens on May 6 2016
In one of the comments the guy says I was forced to do this for my homework, I say that you weren't for this is a part of educating yourself about America
Shut up goofy. Y’all keep taking land and implementing rules and still pay the so called illegals a misery…. Yet take all the credit from their skills.. same stuff was happening back then..
Your map is wrong. Deleware, the little yellow dot east of Maryland should be green. Deleware was a slave state that remained in the union. The slaves in Deleware were not freed until the 13th amendment was legally radified (incidently by it's adoption by the readmitted state of Georgia) in December of 1865. If fact, Deleware did not ratify the 13th amendment until the early 1900s.
1 - What caused the American Civil War? That’s a complicated question, and one that many people still argue and disagree about to date. After the American Revolution, the regions of the new country grew, but in different ways. 2 - Although there were still lots of farms in the North, it became an increasingly industrial society where many people lived in cities with factories. Although there was some industry in the South, it remained mostly agricultural with few people, over a third of whom, were enslaved. 3 - Northern states had gradually abolished, or gotten rid of slavery, while it remained legal in the South. In the 1850s the big question was what to do about all the land in the West when it was settled and carved up into new states. Northerners wanted territories in the west admitted as free states, while Southerners wanted them to become slave states. 4 - In 1854, a new political party, called the Republicans didn’t want slavery in the Western territories. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. Many white Southerners were upset by Lincoln’s election because they believed they had the right to take their slaves to the West if they moved there. 5 - They also feared that as the number of free states grew, congress would vote to abolish slavery all together. Some Southerners began to claim their states had the right to secede or break away from the United States which was also called the Union. They wanted to become a new country. 6 - That’s exactly what happened in December 1860 when South Carolina became the first state to secede. Six other Southern states followed and in February 1861, they formed the Confederate States of America. 7 - At first, Virginia voted to remain in the Union. It wasn’t until South Carolina attacked a Union fort off its East coast called Fort Sumpter that war actually began. Now Virginia was forced to decide which side it would fight with and after voting a second time, it chose to join the Confederacy. 8 - Even after secession, 50 counties in Western Virginia refused to leave the Union and in 1863 became the state of West Virginia. How do you think a war in Virginia would affect your community?
@ Victor - You left out some important facts. Here are some facts about USA history, the Electoral College, and the civil war. The sources of this information are the USA Constitution and actual events in USA history: The Electoral College was written by terrorists(slavers) to be nothing more than a "welfare benefit" for themselves and other USA terrorists. The E C (+ the 3/5ths clause) awards excessive national governmental and political power to terrorists(slavers). The Electoral College encouraged and rewarded the terrorism of slavery. The Electoral College allowed terrorists to dominate the USA national government until around 1850-1860. The USA's "founding fathers" were the USA's first group of "welfare queens". Ten of the first twelve presidents were terrorists. What happened around 1860 when abolition and the prohibition of slaver terrorism in the new territories greatly reduced the "free stuff" to which the terrorists had become so accustomed? One of the biggest blows to the "terrorist welfare queens" was the prohibition of slaver terrorism in Western territories. That's one of the reasons you hear that old csa/kkk terrorist propaganda phrase, "WE DON'T WANT TO BE RULED BY THE COASTS!". What happened when the terrorist "welfare queens" lost their "free stuff" from the USA government? The csa/kkk was just a MS-13-type gang of butthurt "welfare queens". After causing the civil war, the Electoral College became a "welfare benefit" for states which suppress voting. I wonder which states LOVE to suppress voting .......... might they be the former terrorist states and terrorist sympathizer states?
"Everything stemmed from the slavery issue," - James McPherson - "The war was ABOUT slavery. [Catton's emphasis] Slavery had caused it: If slavery had vanished before 1861, the war simply would not have taken place." Bruce Catton, "Reflections on the Civil War" p5
Missouri the border state: The unionist part was StLouis and the neibourhood, Ozarck region and the Iowa border region. The Confederat sentiment area was the little Dixie the Missouri river area. Where lived in dense mass of slaves in Missouri???? Yes in the little Dixie! Where was low % slave population in Tennessee? In East Tennessee! Where did Union sentiment people lived in Tennessee, in East Tennessee! The first and second (East) Tennessee regiments fought in the Battle of Mill springs in January 1862 under the (East) Virginian general George Thomas. Farragut admiral was born in East Tennessee. Where did few slaves live in North Caroline? In West part of North Carolina and New Bern port city were less slavery system dependent areas and both region was pro Unionist! North Carolina gave about 15 000 soldiers to the Union! Arkansas. Where did few slaves lived in Arkansas? Ozarck region and Ozark region gave soldiers to the Union! I think the Union sentiment regions in Texas (north and central counties) and in North Alabama and North Georgia could connect to the relativly fewer slave population. But here these areas could not send soldiers to North becaus to be too far.
Anybody who has read anything by an actual Civil War historian knows the war was caused by and about slavery, and the South admitted that itself, over and over. "I have been appointed by the Convention of the State of Georgia, to present to you the ordinance of secession of Georgia, and further, to invite Virginia, through you, to join Georgia and the other seceded States in the formation of a Southern Confederacy.… *What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? That reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction; a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery."* Henry L, Benning, Commissioner from Georgia - "Address Delivered Before the Virginia state Convention. February 18, 1861 They didn't make those kind of statements about anything other than slavery. So: “Any neo-Confederate or plain old American who wants to say, ‘No, no, it’s about states’ rights,’ [or anything else] has the problem that they’re not arguing with me. They’re arguing with the people in South Carolina who seceded; they’re arguing with the convention in Mississippi.” "I don’t mean to be mean, but secession and the Confederacy was all about treason on behalf of slavery, and we have to call it what it was.” Dr. James Loewen .
***** "To evade the issue thus forced upon us at this time, without the fullest security for our rights, is, in my opinion, fatal to the institution of slavery forever." Speech of Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris January 7, 1861 "The great question which is now uprooting this Government to its foundation---the great question which underlies all our deliberations here, is the question of African slavery" -Thomas F. Goode, March 28, 1861, VA Secession Convention "African slavery is a vital part of the social system of the states wherein it exists, and as that form of servitude existed when the Union was formed, and the jurisdiction of the several States over it within their respective limits, was recognized by the Constitution, any interference to its prejudice by the federal authority, or by the authorities of other states, or by the people thereof, is in derogation from plain right, contrary to the Constitution, offensive and dangerous." - Virginia Secession Convention Statement Yeah, it was slavery. The Southern states committed treason to protect slavery. .
So Once again: "Having swept away the counterfactual Myth of the Lost Cause, a historian may briefly state the history of the Civil War as follows. The eleven states that seceded and became the Confederate States of America did so in order to protect the institution of African slavery from a perceived political threat from the majority of the people of the United States who disapproved of the institution." - Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History" p29 .
***** Bullshit Tenn. like the rest of the confederacy committed treason to protect slavery and gov. Harris admitted it as shown. What speech do you think I just quoted? The very January speech you reference, LOL. There are no factual inaccuracies and I am backed by the entire academic Civil War historical community, my degrees in history and my certificate to teach it.
***** The 'coercion' argument was invalid then and it is invalid now. The upper Southern states had no problem when it was the Northern states being forcibly coerced because of their opposition to the fugitive laws. The South didn't threaten to secede to when it was Northern states that were being 'coerced' by the South. The upper Southern states didn't threaten to secede when the Confederacy called up 100,000 troops BEFORE Lincoln's call. Troops which were to be used to coerce the legal federal power and Unionist Southern citizens, steal federal property and attack its installations. The upper Southern states, given their position and economic ties to the North were more reluctant and at first looked to compromise, but when it was clear that a choice had to be made to side with or against the slave states and slavery, they chose slavery because of slavery, not 'coercion'. The 'coercion' argument must be seen for what it is; merely a preemptive form of the states' rights/states sovereignty justification; and 'states rights' was all about slavery. "The claim that his call for troops was the cause of the upper South's decision to secede is misleading. As the telegraph chattered repots of the attack on Sumter April 12 and its surrender the next day, huge crowds poured into the streets of Richmond, Raleigh, Nashville, and other upper South cities to celebrate this victory over the Yankees. These crowds waved the Confederate flags and cheered the glorious cause of southern independence. They demanded that their own states join the cause. Scores of such demonstrations took place from April 12 to 14 BEFORE Lincoln issued his call for troops. Many conditional unionists were swept along by this tide of Southern Nationalism; others cowed into silence." McPherson, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" p278 "I feel impelled, Mr. President, to vote for this Ordinance by an overruling necessity. Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery. This, in my judgment, was the only alternative; and I foresaw that the South would be compelled, at some day, to make her selection. The day is now come, and Alabama must make her selection, either to secede from the Union, and assume the position of a sovereign, independent State, or she must submit to a system of policy on the part of the Federal Government that, in a short time, will compel her to abolish African Slavery." Speech of E.S. Dargan, in the Convention of Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861
***** And you can 'screen shot' anything you wish, the only thing you prove is your own ignorance. "Within the profession [historians] there's virtually no discussion or debate left of slavery as central to the antebellum south and the fundamental cause of secession and the war." Dr. Eric Walther of University of Houston .
All I'm responding to is the claim that "When Lincoln was elected he passed the tariff act..." No, the Southern States had seceded before he took office. You can revise and massage and try to avoid slavery as the cause for war all you like, but my only comment is against the clear misinformation by Leo Smith above.
🍷Except after they seceded, The south side decided they wanted in on that sweet new found chunk of land on the West. And for that west side land they were sure ready to give it all up!
Lincoln was building up forces in Fort Sumter. SC had no choice but to stop it. Each State would have been considered a country inside the Union and had the right to remove itself from the Union.
Really? They had no choice but to fire on federal territory that they suddenly disassociated with because they were afraid they'd lose the ability to stop owning people? What a convoluted perspective.
(1/2) "As evidenced by the prewar political discord, the nature of the compromise efforts on the eve of Fort Sumter - all if which concerned the legal status of slavery - and the prewar statements of Southern political leaders, slavery was THE (his emphasis) sectional issue. Southern political leaders led their states out of the Union to protect slavery from a disapproving national majority.
Who needs to use references and sources of fact when they can just make up a story from partial records, avoid masses of additional details, and most "educators" agree to it because it fits the narrative?
@@davidcarr1133 i know. Its a real problem, especially in the south. The lost cause arguments made without considering the facts really exposes how morally bankrupt these people really are.
I say look at the letters between Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. The letter from them state that slavery would be in the south only and not in the new territory. They were trying to contain slavery and the southern leaders didn't want that nor did they like the amount of tariff they had to pay. They also had issues with the growing power of the federal government over the states.
The south loved the amount of tariffs they had to pay. The tariff law was written by a Virginian and supported throughout the south. And no, they didn't have a problem with the power of the Federal government...as long as that power was used to keep slavery intact. They loved being able to send the U.S. Army to the north to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. They loved being able to use the U.S. Army to take land from Mexico so they could expand slavery.
@@aaronfleming9426 That is no accurate. The Tariff of 1828, called the Tariff of Abominations in the South, was the worst exploitation. It passed Congress 105 to 94 but lost among Southern congressmen 50 to 3. The South argued that favoring some industries over others was unconstitutional. The South Carolina Exposition and Protest written by Vice President John Calhoun warned that if the tariff of 1828 was not repealed, South Carolina would secede. It cited Jefferson and Madison for the precedent that a state had the right to reject or nullify federal law. In an 1832 state legislature campaign speech, Lincoln defined his position, saying, “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of a national bank . . . in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.” He was firmly against free trade and in favor of using the power of the federal government to benefit specific industries like Lincoln’s favorite, Pennsylvania steel. I do not understand the rest of you comment about using the army to capture slaves they had bounty hunters for that and it was never a concern, lastly their is nothing written to support that claim. Its best to stick to what you can see and their is nothing more definite than actual correspondence between people.
I usually withhold comments not to do with music - but you're completely wrong, Leo. Lincoln's inauguration was not until March 1861. The core seven deep southern states had seceded by February, the month before Lincoln took office. The rest followed suit because of economic pressure, cultural unity, anxiety, and long-building differences with non-slave states. They were out by June 1861. I think your claim needs a little research.
Lincoln himself said that he would allow slavery as long as the union was maintained. Ever hear of the Corwin Amendment? Search it, you might learn something.
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Me doing this for homework because I'm stuck in quarantine the whole video: 👁👄👁
Fool. quarantine only exists in your head
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"I feel impelled, Mr. President [of the convention], to vote for this Ordinance [of secession] by an overruling necessity. Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery" - Speech of E.S. Dargan, in the Convention of Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861
What caused the civil war???? The reason is written in The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States. They said the reason and wrote it down before it started. We have no reason, 150 years down the road, to manufacture reasons when the people that started the war put it in writing.
The South was Pro-Slavery and the North was Anti Slavery. Pro Slavery meant slaves from Kentucky could immigrate with their owners to the western territories. Pro-Slavery meant the western territory was reserved for free white labor to the exclusion of the slaves or free black men. It was not a moral position but based on white supremacy. Slavery was legal in the United States. The union was a compact between the states. The states all should have equal access to the common territory not yet part of the United States. By limiting immigrants from the South, but allowing immigrants from the north, new states would side with the industrial north in Congress on issues such as a tariff and a national bank. The south left the union over principle. When the south left the Union, all that territory belonged to the United States so why not let the south go. The reason was because a free trade Federal Republic (CSA) would have devastated northern industry. Southerners would have purchased their goods from Europe instead of the USA. There would have been massive economic devastation. The south was the number one purchaser of northern manufactured goods. Today, the central bank (Fed) is destroying the dollar. This will devastate and impoverish the United States. Thus, the north had to conquer the south had to control it. What is going on today leads right back to that tyrant Lincoln who by the way disdained black people.
Exactly right. And it is also recorded in the minutes of every succession convention in each southern state.
in my school book-club, we watched this video because we are going to read a book about slavery and the Civil war. This video really helped my book-club understand the Civil war. Thank you for posting this video ~ Me and my small book-club
That is a good video. Thank you for sharing.
This is a great explanation. Thanks.
"The people of the northern States have organized a political party, purely sectional in its character; the central and controlling idea of which is hostility to the institution of AFRICAN SLAVERY, as it exists in the southern States, and that party has elected a President and Vice President of the United States, pledged to administer the government upon principles inconsistent with the rights, and subversive of the interests of the people of the southern States."
Arkansas Secession Convention
More simply put, slavery caused the Civil War (or, more precisely, greed and white supremacy).
Yes Arkansas was one of the "smoking gun" states that wrote it down so we know today it was about slavery
Yes, you need to read all of the document though. Slavery was legal in 1860. The USA was a Federal Republic with slavery fighting a war with the CSA which was a Federal Republic with slavery. There were 500,000 slaves in the north and about 3.5 million in the south. Slavery was still legal in New Jersey and Delaware as well as the border states which remained in the union. The north was complicit in slavery. It was the New England states that controlled the shipping industry and were involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Northern factories used slave cotton in their factories. Northern banks provided loans to southerners to purchase slaves. It is important to remember that 75 percent of southerners did not own any slaves. The north only wanted to eliminate slavery in the western territories. See Corwin Amendment. The Anti-Slavery position was the western territory was for free white labor only. This was not a moral position but a racist position. They wanted to keep free blacks out of the territory but why? For reasons of political power in Congress. If new states joined the union and were pro-northern, they would be able to get enough votes to pass unconstitutional legislation such as the American System. This was high tariffs, handouts to corporations, a railroad, and subsidies for internal improvements which were not constitutional.
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Nope. Every Northern state had acted to end slavery before the war, and even as early as 1820 there will only be about 3000 slaves left in the North, well before it was industrialized, and that number is falling. (Macmillan Encyclopedia, "Slavery In The Civil War Era").
Or as Professor Paul Finkelman put it,
_"By 1804, all of the states north of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware had either ended slavery outright or had passed legislation to gradually abolish the institution. Thus, after 1804, Slavery was peculiar to the South."_
But meanwhile the Southern states not only refused to try to give it up, they grew it and embraced it even more so that even at the time of the Revolution:
_"The Southern Colonies of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, by contrast, were not merely societies with slaves but "slave societies" organized economically, socially, and politically around the principle and practice of human bondage. In 1760, 88 percent of the 325,806 slaves in the British mainland colonies lived in the South."_
Elizabeth R. Varon "Disunion, the coming of the American Civil War" p17
And all the border states were Southern slave states that were retained in the Union one way or another. Many were divided internally themselves like Missouri that fought its own Civil War within the larger one. Kentucky had governments that claimed to represent it on both sides. Maryland had divided loyalties although the weakness of slavery there, economic ties and existing loyalty to the Union and the Federal Military presence itself saw it side with the Union. Only in Delaware with less than 1800 slaves was there no secession movement. In the other three states it had to be suppressed.
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The Antebellum South itself questions your intellectual integrity.
_"Can there be a doubt in any intelligent mind, that the object which the Black Republican party has in view is the ultimate extinction of slavery in the United States? To doubt it, is to cast the imputation of hypocracy and imbecility upon the majority of the people of every Northern State, who have stood by this party through all its trials and struggles, to its ultimate triumph in the election Lincoln._
_In these declarations Mr. Lincoln has covered the entire abolition platform - hatred of slavery, disregard of judicial decisions, negro equality, and, as a matter of course, the ultimate extinction of slavery. None of these doctrines, however, are left to inference, so far as Mr. Lincoln is concerned, as we see he has avowed them in the plainest and clearest language. They are not exceeded by the boldness of Seward, the malignity of Giddings, or the infamy of Garrison. It was the knowledge of these facts which induced his nomination by the Republican party; and by the free circulation which has been given to them in the canvass, it would seem that Mr. Lincoln is indebted to their popularity for his election._
_There is one dogma of this party which has been so solemnly enunciated, both by their national conventions and Mr. Lincoln that it is worth of serious consideration. I allude to the doctrine of negro equality. The stereotyped expression of the Declaration of Independence that "All men are born equal," has been perverted from its plain and truthful meaning, and made the basis of a political dogma which strikes at the very foundations of the institution of slavery. Mr. Lincoln and his party assert that this doctrine of equality applies to the negro, and necessarily there can exist no such thing as property in our equals. Upon this point both Mr. Lincoln and his party have spoken with a distinctiveness that admits of no question or equivocation. If they are right, the institution of slavery as it exists in the Southern States is in direct violation of the fundamental principles of our Government; and to say that they would not use all the powers in their hands to eradicate the evil and restore the Government to its "ancient faith," would be to write themselves down self-convicted traitors both to principle and duty._
_In the election which just transpired, the Black Republicans did not hesitate to announce, defend and justify the doctrines and principles which I have attributed to them. During the progress of the canvass I obtained copies of the documents which they were circulating at the North, with a view of ascertaining the grounds upon which they were appealing to the people for their support and confidence. With the exception of a few dull speeches in favor of a protective tariff, intended for circulation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and still fewer number of pitiful appeals for squandering the public lands, the whole canvass was conducted by the most bitter and malignant appeals to the anti-slavery sentiment of the North._
_Fellow-citizens of Georgia, I have endeavored to place before you the facts of the case, in plain and unimpassioned language; and I should feel that I had done injustice to my own convictions, and been unfaithful to you, if I did not in conclusion warn you against the danger of delay and impress upon you the hopelessness of any remedy for these evils short of secession. You have to deal with a shrewd, heartless and unscrupulous enemy, who in their extremity may promise anything, but in the end will do nothing. On the 4th day of March, 1861, the Federal Government will pass into the hands of the Abolitionists. It will then cease to have the slightest claim upon either your confidence or your loyalty; and, in my honest judgment, each hour that Georgia remains thereafter a member of the Union will be an hour of degradation, to be followed by certain and speedy ruin...'"_
- Howell Cobb (future President of the Provisional Confederate Congress), December 6, 1860
_”If Mr. Lincoln places among us his Judges, District Attorneys, Marshals, Post Masters, Custom House officers, etc., etc., by the end of his adminstration, with the control of these men, and the distribution of public patronage, he will have succeeded in dividing us to an extent that will destroy all our moral powers, and prepare us to tolerate the running of a Republican ticket, in most of the States of the South, in 1864. If this ticket only secured five or ten thousand votes in each of the Southern States, it would be as large as the abolition party was in the North a few years since. It would hold a ballance [*sic*] of power between any two political parties into which the people of the South may hereafter be divided. This would soon give it the control of our elections. We would then be powerless, and the abolitionists would press forward, with a steady step, to the accomplishment of their object. They would refuse to admit any other slave States to the Union. They would abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and at the Forts, Arsenals and Dock Yards, within the Southern States, which belong to the United States. They would then abolish the internal slave trade between the States, and prohibit a slave owner in Georgia from carrying his slaves into Alabama or South Carolina, and there selling them. These steps would be taken one at a time, cautiously, and our people would submit. Finally, when we were sufficiently humiliated, and sufficiently in their power, they would abolish slavery in the States. It will not be many years before enough of free States may be formed out of the present territories of the United States, and admitted into the Union, to give them sufficient strength to change the Constitution, and remove all Constitutional barriers which now deny to Congress this power. I do not doubt, therefore, that submission to the administration of Mr. Lincoln will result in the final abolition of slavery. If we fail to resist now, we will never again have the strength to resist.”_ Open letter of Gov. Joseph E. Brown to the Georgia legislature. Dec. 7, 1860
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Great voice and thank you for the video explaining the cause of the Civil War.
Now I know what to do for my assignment! Thank you! 😁
Good information, keep it up!
I'm studying English and your voice is very soft , calm and easy for understanding
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Me too
I'm learning English. Texts with audios are my anchor now. Thank you very much for give me this simple class (sorry for my bad English)
I’m forced to do this for my homework..
Bro same XD
same for me but it's a test :/
I’m watching it for a Twitter argument
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This was very helpful for my test! Keep creating more!
Very glad to hear it, Katie!
INFORMATIVE!!!
Slavery was why the South left the Union but it wasn't why the North fought.
@VIII Maus then why didn't they free the slaves held in the 3 Union states?
@@Dragonette666 as OP said, the USA DIDNT fight for the abolition of slavery, they fought to stop southern succession
Interesting point
it was a large part of it, what was the reason you think?
@@austinjohnson4890 preserving their tax base and federal property. That's the funny part now when these states say they want to leave the union. The federal government isn't going to give up it's bases or any ports regardless of how you vote.
It's also how the US goes to war. We put people in harms way and provoke the potential enemy. Then act sheepish when they respond with violence.
Finally, a history lesson that doesn’t sound like one big filibuster
And indeed doesn't sound like a history lesson either but is a fine piece of disinformation
I really needed this for homework so thanks
Thank you so much for posting this video! It helps out a ton with our history!
thank you! this helped me so much.
Excellent presentation, you have explained the cause very clearly
But it’s actually very inaccurate
@@nedhill1242hugely inaccurate but serves to continue the tradition of southern propaganda that the south needs to have some sense of worth.
Thanks Morgan Freeman!
You may know this, the narrator's name is James "Al" Johnson :)
Morgan Freeman?! 🤦♂️
Nah thats normal-talking yoda
IGNORANT LOO
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The whole thing was so big it can only be clearly studied in sections! It's amazing it all actually happened!
Yes and the South was able by guerrilla warfare to overthrow radical reconstruction.
@@edwardclement102 Hey. March 1. 2022. .."Radical Reconstruction". ..This is what "Czar Putin" pushes on Ukraine in his twisted desire for a new Russian Empire! ,(Not Soviet Union, Putin hates Commies!), Using brute force & the most astounding cruelty! Dear "Southern" Soul! Rise up & smite down the Devil Putin!! ...General Lee would smile as Gray Army made Putin's Imperial Army cry for mommy!! You see! Just like old King George lll !! & you, dear FREE AMERICA!! Taught little Imperialist ,Georgy!, a damn fine lesson in Manners!! & Putin will learn those manners !! Stand Strong American Soul!!
@@edwardclement102 Thus the south stole black peoples' rights.
@@edwardclement102 You mean the terrorist activities of the KKK?
@@edwardclement102is that why they're still so far behind the developed states?
Nice help me alot :D
Fleece Johnson really knows his history
Thank you so much for helping me on my report
I love this guy's narration voice
Yes he does a great job explaining this :)
"narrative" voice
this was great
Great video!
FYI, for those in the South that are still in denial that the main cause of the Civil War was slavery. The leaders of the south, in the articles of secession, their personal writings, and in the constitution of the confederacy make no mention of tariffs (as the reason for succession). The Morrill Tariff had not passed in the Senate when 7 of the southern states seceded. The vote, which needed a 2/3 majority to pass, was 25-14 without those 7 southern states or 14 potential votes voting. If they had stayed in the Union, and all voted they could have easily prevented the passage of the Morrill Tariff since it needed 32 votes to pass (60% of 53 votes (39 that voted plus the 14 potential votes, a simple 8-6 against would do)). And the Tariffs set in 1857 were the lowest since 1817. Hence, it was not about tariffs. Or, state rights, since the south only cared about state rights so that they could keep and possibly expand slavery into newly acquired territories. The fugitive slave law in 1950 showed how little the south cared about states rights by forcing the North to help enforce slavery against their state's policy about not having slaves. So grow up -- no one is blaming you -- just some of the adults that lived in the South in 1860.
I read the succession from Georgia and that’s the only one, and it literally mentioned taxes lol so no.
Either way, as long as you know, the north wasn’t trying to ens slavery to be nice but to hurt the south there were good abolitionist as long as you know, the vast majority of people in the south and not on slaves and as long as you know, the Civil War would’ve 100% happened if slavery wasn’t an issue that I’m fine with you being wrong about Texes
You’re arguing against arguments nobody’s making. Nobody mentioned that specific Tax, and said that’s the reason. The north was literally taxing the south on commodities that vastly disproportionately affected the south. You’re just lying for some reason. You’re saying it was primarily about slavery, and then essentially saying these are the reasons it was about nothing else. So you’re contradicting yourself. Tell us what else was it about you claim it was about other things while simultaneously saying it was about nothing else but slavery by making bad arguments. You’re just making strawman arguments. No one said taxes were the highest they’ve ever been. But if you’re saying, the south didn’t disproportionately commodities affected them more than the north lying or uninformed
There is literally not an ounce of logic tied to the fugitive slave law being brought up in the south not caring about states rights. That’s so incomprehensibly stupid
But I know slavery was an issue, and I’ve never claimed the opposite and people who claim it had nothing to do with slavery or wrong, but you’re equally as wrong as they are, and pretty much everything you said, even if some of us factually true isn’t relevant because that’s not the point anyone’s making. There were separate issues, and removing one of them may have prevented the Civil War, or may not have.
Excellent for classroom.
Thank you Sir, that was wonderful. 😊
Brilliant and simple explanation. Thank you!
Well said!
Thanks for the video!
That was the longest 3 minutes of my life!
you learn something new everyday
Greetings from Canada. thank you for this brief answer. I didn't know why the South was not allowed to secede peaceably.
Because it's illegal to secede.
Not only was it illegal to secede the south started stealing union property before the war started. Also slavery... allowing the south to secede peacefully would have meant the spread of slavery. The south was planning on invading Cuba, Mexico, and south America to spread slavery.
No it was not illegal to secede. You need to listen to Thomas Sowell if you want the truth.@@aaronfleming9426
The problem is immediately upon seceding a lot of the states rose militias by their governors to seize federal properties and forts within their states. It all then came to a massive head when one such militia in South Carolina decided to open fire on Fort Sumter, officially sparking the Civil War.
Which one?
thanks! that was helpful! your voice is deep and relaxing ^_^
LOVE YOUR VOICE
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Good overview on the causes of the war. A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens is a good resource for those who want to learn more.
it was spot on. The north never wanted to get rid of slavery they wanted to contain it.
Mr history guy I was told IKe clanton was killed by a detective but I thought it was a bank robbery can you clarify this.
Thank you morgen Freeman how the movies going
"Within the profession [historians] there's virtually no discussion or debate left of slavery as central to the antebellum south and the fundamental cause of secession and the war." Dr. Eric Walther of University of Houston
Nor should there be, given that the south placed "Negro Slavery" as a COMPULSORY for all states in the new Confederate States.
@Old Corps Marine it was all about slavery...said the Confederate Constitution, which was almost entirely a ripoff of the Union Constitution, EXCEPT all states and all persons were required, REQUIRED, to support and preserve the institution of NEGRO SLAVERY (their exact word).
All about slavery of the Black Race.
Grow up
@Old Corps Marine Facts don't care about your lies.
Only the South insisted that NO ONE could challenge the "right" of "Negro slavery" and put that in their Constitution.
@Old Corps Marine whatever helps you sleep at night. Right👍🤡
WOW, and him from Texas, who da thunk it?
Finally!! Something that doesn't make me want to not do my assignment.
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"Many people continue to believe that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery: that the South tried to leave the Union to protect “states’ rights” in general or because it objected to the Republican Party’s stand on tariffs or other unrelated matters.
But the record of the North-South conflict during the 40 or so years before the war shows unmistakably that slavery was central to it. And the leaders of the secession movement said as much in 1860-61. They left the Union because they believed that Lincoln’s election imperiled the security of slavery, an institution that they considered essential to their own happiness and prosperity." - Professor Bruce Levine, Apr. 8, 2011
The Professor would probably fail any student with such vast claims on an assignment and no references with facts that backed it up - unless it was something like this that he so strongly wants to believe, himself.
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You want references? I could give you a list of hundreds of books. Of course you never picked up one of those in your life. at least not one by an actual historian.
_"Within the profession [historians] there's virtually no discussion or debate left of slavery as central to the antebellum south and the fundamental cause of secession and the war."_ - Dr. Eric Walther of University of Houston
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@@davidcarr1133 - Here are some facts about USA history, the Electoral College, and the civil war. The sources of this information are the USA Constitution and actual events in USA history:
The Electoral College was written by terrorists(slavers) to be nothing more than a "welfare benefit" for themselves and other USA terrorists. The E C (+ the 3/5ths clause) awards excessive national governmental and political power to terrorists(slavers). The Electoral College encouraged and rewarded the terrorism of slavery. The Electoral College allowed terrorists to dominate the USA national government until around 1850-1860. The USA's "founding fathers" were the USA's first group of "welfare queens". Ten of the first twelve presidents were terrorists.
What happened around 1860 when abolition and the prohibition of slaver terrorism in the new territories greatly reduced the "free stuff" to which the terrorists had become so accustomed?
One of the biggest blows to the "terrorist welfare queens" was the prohibition of slaver terrorism in Western territories. That's one of the reasons you hear that old csa/kkk terrorist propaganda phrase, "WE DON'T WANT TO BE RULED BY THE COASTS!".
What happened when the terrorist "welfare queens" lost their "free stuff" from the USA government?
The csa/kkk was just a MS-13-type gang of butthurt "welfare queens".
After causing the civil war, the Electoral College became a "welfare benefit" for states which suppress voting. I wonder which states LOVE to suppress voting .......... might they be the former terrorist states and terrorist sympathizer states?
This would be great if we could hear it!
"Having swept away the counterfactual Myth of the Lost Cause, a historian may briefly state the history of the Civil War as follows.
The eleven states that seceded and became the Confederate States of America did so in order to protect the institution of African slavery from a perceived political threat from the majority of the people of the United States who disapproved of the institution."
- Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History" p29
Thank you. The Lost Cause Myth given the losing side of the Civil War a chance to re-write history to make it seem that slavery was just this little thing that was going to die out anyway and that it was the big bad North that forced their way upon the poor little South.
I didn't know that about why theres a virgina and west Virginia 😳.. ✌🏾
Narrator... I thought you were telling a bedtime story......can you please speak closer to the microphone...?
Thanks from Canada.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act really started the ball of war rolling: Senator Stephan Douglas made Chicago the railroad capital of the country. However, in doing so, he threw away Senator Clay's Missouri Compromise insuring that all the land from the Mexican War would be equally divided between slave & free states maintaining the balance of power. Popular Sovereignty was a disaster stating the people of each state could deside for themselves. "Bleeding Kansas" was the result: a mini civil war 4 years before the big one started.
Bleeding KS bled over into the rest of the country in 1860
Fort something?
what caused the civil war is the problem that the superheroes were destroying too much property and needed to be put in check, but Captain America said otherwise..... find out what happens on May 6 2016
+Hello People bruh this is about the real civil war not a damn comic
+Tanner Chabot ik 😂
Hello People whats so god damn funny
+stefanjunior22 😏
I love your voice!
i do to but he kept smacking
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@@Olivia-cw8ig forreal it’s bothering me😂
@@Olivia-cw8ig he was way too quiet I had to turn up my laptop all the way up.
In one of the comments the guy says I was forced to do this for my homework, I say that you weren't for this is a part of educating yourself about America
Shut up goofy. Y’all keep taking land and implementing rules and still pay the so called illegals a misery…. Yet take all the credit from their skills.. same stuff was happening back then..
so now i have to right a very long paper about this 😬
@Madison Lecraft hope you do well 😔🙏
Love you
Nice voice
I Loved The Narrator
Your map is wrong. Deleware, the little yellow dot east of Maryland should be green. Deleware was a slave state that remained in the union. The slaves in Deleware were not freed until the 13th amendment was legally radified (incidently by it's adoption by the readmitted state of Georgia) in December of 1865. If fact, Deleware did not ratify the 13th amendment until the early 1900s.
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Pilgrims escaping the Kings Religion at Plymouth vs Jamestown Colonizing for The King
That's pretty much how I see it as well.
I predict another civil war.
1 - What caused the American Civil War? That’s a complicated question, and one that many people still argue and disagree about to date. After the American Revolution, the regions of the new country grew, but in different ways.
2 - Although there were still lots of farms in the North, it became an increasingly industrial society where many people lived in cities with factories. Although there was some industry in the South, it remained mostly agricultural with few people, over a third of whom, were enslaved.
3 - Northern states had gradually abolished, or gotten rid of slavery, while it remained legal in the South. In the 1850s the big question was what to do about all the land in the West when it was settled and carved up into new states. Northerners wanted territories in the west admitted as free states, while Southerners wanted them to become slave states.
4 - In 1854, a new political party, called the Republicans didn’t want slavery in the Western territories. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. Many white Southerners were upset by Lincoln’s election because they believed they had the right to take their slaves to the West if they moved there.
5 - They also feared that as the number of free states grew, congress would vote to abolish slavery all together. Some Southerners began to claim their states had the right to secede or break away from the United States which was also called the Union. They wanted to become a new country.
6 - That’s exactly what happened in December 1860 when South Carolina became the first state to secede. Six other Southern states followed and in February 1861, they formed the Confederate States of America.
7 - At first, Virginia voted to remain in the Union. It wasn’t until South Carolina attacked a Union fort off its East coast called Fort Sumpter that war actually began. Now Virginia was forced to decide which side it would fight with and after voting a second time, it chose to join the Confederacy.
8 - Even after secession, 50 counties in Western Virginia refused to leave the Union and in 1863 became the state of West Virginia. How do you think a war in Virginia would affect your community?
This is helpful for my hw thanks :D
@ Victor - You left out some important facts.
Here are some facts about USA history, the Electoral College, and the civil war. The sources of this information are the USA Constitution and actual events in USA history:
The Electoral College was written by terrorists(slavers) to be nothing more than a "welfare benefit" for themselves and other USA terrorists. The E C (+ the 3/5ths clause) awards excessive national governmental and political power to terrorists(slavers). The Electoral College encouraged and rewarded the terrorism of slavery. The Electoral College allowed terrorists to dominate the USA national government until around 1850-1860. The USA's "founding fathers" were the USA's first group of "welfare queens". Ten of the first twelve presidents were terrorists.
What happened around 1860 when abolition and the prohibition of slaver terrorism in the new territories greatly reduced the "free stuff" to which the terrorists had become so accustomed?
One of the biggest blows to the "terrorist welfare queens" was the prohibition of slaver terrorism in Western territories. That's one of the reasons you hear that old csa/kkk terrorist propaganda phrase, "WE DON'T WANT TO BE RULED BY THE COASTS!".
What happened when the terrorist "welfare queens" lost their "free stuff" from the USA government?
The csa/kkk was just a MS-13-type gang of butthurt "welfare queens".
After causing the civil war, the Electoral College became a "welfare benefit" for states which suppress voting. I wonder which states LOVE to suppress voting .......... might they be the former terrorist states and terrorist sympathizer states?
Helped me with my work
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Your emitting significant parts of this story
Nikki Hailey should have watched this video and quote what this narrator said to the person who asked her about what cause the civil war.
"Everything stemmed from the slavery issue," - James McPherson
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"The war was ABOUT slavery. [Catton's emphasis] Slavery had caused it: If slavery had vanished before 1861, the war simply would not have taken place." Bruce Catton, "Reflections on the Civil War" p5
Missouri the border state:
The unionist part was StLouis and the neibourhood, Ozarck region and the Iowa border region.
The Confederat sentiment area was the little Dixie the Missouri river area.
Where lived in dense mass of slaves in Missouri???? Yes in the little Dixie!
Where was low % slave population in Tennessee? In East Tennessee! Where did Union sentiment people lived in Tennessee, in East Tennessee! The first and second (East) Tennessee regiments fought in the Battle of Mill springs in January 1862 under the (East) Virginian general George Thomas. Farragut admiral was born in East Tennessee.
Where did few slaves live in North Caroline? In West part of North Carolina and New Bern port city were less slavery system dependent areas and both region was pro Unionist! North Carolina gave about 15 000 soldiers to the Union!
Arkansas. Where did few slaves lived in Arkansas? Ozarck region and Ozark region gave soldiers to the Union!
I think the Union sentiment regions in Texas (north and central counties) and in North Alabama and North Georgia could connect to the relativly fewer slave population. But here these areas could not send soldiers to North becaus to be too far.
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BRUH THIS VIDEO NEVER SAID WHAT THEY BELIEVED I WATCHED THIS OVER 5 TIMES
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Anybody who has read anything by an actual Civil War historian knows the war was caused by and about slavery, and the South admitted that itself, over and over.
"I have been appointed by the Convention of the State of Georgia, to present to you the ordinance of secession of Georgia, and further, to invite Virginia, through you, to join Georgia and the other seceded States in the formation of a Southern Confederacy.… *What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? That reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction; a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery."*
Henry L, Benning, Commissioner from Georgia - "Address Delivered Before the Virginia state Convention. February 18, 1861
They didn't make those kind of statements about anything other than slavery.
So:
“Any neo-Confederate or plain old American who wants to say, ‘No, no, it’s about states’ rights,’ [or anything else] has the problem that they’re not arguing with me. They’re arguing with the people in South Carolina who seceded; they’re arguing with the convention in Mississippi.”
"I don’t mean to be mean, but secession and the Confederacy was all about treason on behalf of slavery, and we have to call it what it was.” Dr. James Loewen
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"To evade the issue thus forced upon us at this time, without the fullest security for our rights, is, in my opinion, fatal to the institution of slavery forever." Speech of Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris January 7, 1861
"The great question which is now uprooting this Government to its foundation---the great question which underlies all our deliberations here, is the question of African slavery" -Thomas F. Goode, March 28, 1861, VA Secession Convention
"African slavery is a vital part of the social system of the states wherein it exists, and as that form of servitude existed when the Union was formed, and the jurisdiction of the several States over it within their respective limits, was recognized by the Constitution, any interference to its prejudice by the federal authority, or by the authorities of other states, or by the people thereof, is in derogation from plain right, contrary to the Constitution, offensive and dangerous." - Virginia Secession Convention Statement
Yeah, it was slavery. The Southern states committed treason to protect slavery.
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So Once again:
"Having swept away the counterfactual Myth of the Lost Cause, a historian may briefly state the history of the Civil War as follows.
The eleven states that seceded and became the Confederate States of America did so in order to protect the institution of African slavery from a perceived political threat from the majority of the people of the United States who disapproved of the institution."
- Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History" p29
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Bullshit Tenn. like the rest of the confederacy committed treason to protect slavery and gov. Harris admitted it as shown. What speech do you think I just quoted? The very January speech you reference, LOL. There are no factual inaccuracies and I am backed by the entire academic Civil War historical community, my degrees in history and my certificate to teach it.
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The 'coercion' argument was invalid then and it is invalid now. The upper Southern states had no problem when it was the Northern states being forcibly coerced because of their opposition to the fugitive laws. The South didn't threaten to secede to when it was Northern states that were being 'coerced' by the South. The upper Southern states didn't threaten to secede when the Confederacy called up 100,000 troops BEFORE Lincoln's call. Troops which were to be used to coerce the legal federal power and Unionist Southern citizens, steal federal property and attack its installations. The upper Southern states, given their position and economic ties to the North were more reluctant and at first looked to compromise, but when it was clear that a choice had to be made to side with or against the slave states and slavery, they chose slavery because of slavery, not 'coercion'. The 'coercion' argument must be seen for what it is; merely a preemptive form of the states' rights/states sovereignty justification; and 'states rights' was all about slavery.
"The claim that his call for troops was the cause of the upper South's decision to secede is misleading. As the telegraph chattered repots of the attack on Sumter April 12 and its surrender the next day, huge crowds poured into the streets of Richmond, Raleigh, Nashville, and other upper South cities to celebrate this victory over the Yankees.
These crowds waved the Confederate flags and cheered the glorious cause of southern independence. They demanded that their own states join the cause. Scores of such demonstrations took place from April 12 to 14 BEFORE Lincoln issued his call for troops. Many conditional unionists were swept along by this tide of Southern Nationalism; others cowed into silence." McPherson, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" p278
"I feel impelled, Mr. President, to vote for this Ordinance by an overruling necessity. Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery. This, in my judgment, was the only alternative; and I foresaw that the South would be compelled, at some day, to make her selection. The day is now come, and Alabama must make her selection, either to secede from the Union, and assume the position of a sovereign, independent State, or she must submit to a system of policy on the part of the Federal Government that, in a short time, will compel her to abolish African Slavery." Speech of E.S. Dargan, in the Convention of Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861
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And you can 'screen shot' anything you wish, the only thing you prove is your own ignorance.
"Within the profession [historians] there's virtually no discussion or debate left of slavery as central to the antebellum south and the fundamental cause of secession and the war." Dr. Eric Walther of University of Houston
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Someone told me it was the letter Karl Marx (the father of communism) wrote to Abraham Lincoln.
i have adhd and it was hard to concentate and not to be rude but the voice did not help
All I'm responding to is the claim that "When Lincoln was elected he passed the tariff act..." No, the Southern States had seceded before he took office. You can revise and massage and try to avoid slavery as the cause for war all you like, but my only comment is against the clear misinformation by Leo Smith above.
🍷Except after they seceded, The south side decided they wanted in on that sweet new found chunk of land on the West. And for that west side land they were sure ready to give it all up!
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Winners write history.
Historians with whatever resources they have available do.
States rights, ... right ?
Lincoln was building up forces in Fort Sumter. SC had no choice but to stop it. Each State would have been considered a country inside the Union and had the right to remove itself from the Union.
Really? They had no choice but to fire on federal territory that they suddenly disassociated with because they were afraid they'd lose the ability to stop owning people? What a convoluted perspective.
I can’t with his voice lol😂. Does anybody hear that lip smacking???😂😂😂
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"As evidenced by the prewar political discord, the nature of the compromise efforts on the eve of Fort Sumter - all if which concerned the legal status of slavery - and the prewar statements of Southern political leaders, slavery was THE (his emphasis) sectional issue. Southern political leaders led their states out of the Union to protect slavery from a disapproving national majority.
Who needs to use references and sources of fact when they can just make up a story from partial records, avoid masses of additional details, and most "educators" agree to it because it fits the narrative?
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And that's exactly what you Neo-confederate liars do.
@@davidcarr1133 i know. Its a real problem, especially in the south. The lost cause arguments made without considering the facts really exposes how morally bankrupt these people really are.
The colonies were home to a lot of English prisoners. Most going to Georgia (hence the name)
I say look at the letters between Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. The letter from them state that slavery would be in the south only and not in the new territory. They were trying to contain slavery and the southern leaders didn't want that nor did they like the amount of tariff they had to pay. They also had issues with the growing power of the federal government over the states.
The south loved the amount of tariffs they had to pay. The tariff law was written by a Virginian and supported throughout the south.
And no, they didn't have a problem with the power of the Federal government...as long as that power was used to keep slavery intact. They loved being able to send the U.S. Army to the north to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. They loved being able to use the U.S. Army to take land from Mexico so they could expand slavery.
@@aaronfleming9426 That is no accurate.
The Tariff of 1828, called the Tariff of Abominations in the South, was the worst exploitation. It passed Congress 105 to 94 but lost among Southern congressmen 50 to 3. The South argued that favoring some industries over others was unconstitutional.
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest written by Vice President John Calhoun warned that if the tariff of 1828 was not repealed, South Carolina would secede. It cited Jefferson and Madison for the precedent that a state had the right to reject or nullify federal law.
In an 1832 state legislature campaign speech, Lincoln defined his position, saying, “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of a national bank . . . in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.” He was firmly against free trade and in favor of using the power of the federal government to benefit specific industries like Lincoln’s favorite, Pennsylvania steel.
I do not understand the rest of you comment about using the army to capture slaves they had bounty hunters for that and it was never a concern, lastly their is nothing written to support that claim. Its best to stick to what you can see and their is nothing more definite than actual correspondence between people.
I usually withhold comments not to do with music - but you're completely wrong, Leo. Lincoln's inauguration was not until March 1861. The core seven deep southern states had seceded by February, the month before Lincoln took office. The rest followed suit because of economic pressure, cultural unity, anxiety, and long-building differences with non-slave states. They were out by June 1861. I think your claim needs a little research.
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Helloooo! Duh, the Mississippi River in the hands of the Confederates would have a disaster for the Union.
@Jeffrey - Anything the "confederates" touch turns bad. The csa was nothing more than a low-life terrorist gang.
Lincoln himself said that he would allow slavery as long as the union was maintained. Ever hear of the Corwin Amendment? Search it, you might learn something.
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Great informative video but I really have to make an effort to hear you, what a pity.
not me having to watch this for classss
1863
Argument over a remote
It was a lot more then that.
It all boils down to slavery