... the American Civil War was fought over?

I voted other (state's rights/money).

I have asked for this poll to be moved to Politics. Could any mod help a brother out?

care to elaborate.....?

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I'm not trying to explain myself. I'm asking what you think. I invite others to chime in if they feel so inclined.

I think it started over some of the southern states seceeding from the Union. Now they may have seceeded because of the new laws about slavery, but the first attack and and big fight was about states leaving the union and not paying taxes to the Federal Goverment or the Union.
IMHO.

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WELL...it's largely due to when lincoln won the 1860 elections, and 7 states decided to go into secession against the union. They went onto esteblish a new capital in Alabama. They went on to have a Pre-war conference to try and establish a peaceful alternative, but when the 8 other confederate states declined an invitation to join the other 7 members decided to seize all forts within there boundaries. It wasn't until fort sumpter was attacked, and lincolns inaguration (and his constitution is a better union mindset) that led to war.

So slavery is apart of it, but more to do with the confederate states wanting the right to maintain a way of life that led to war.

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It was an economical and ideological battle between the union(northern) and the confederacy(southern). Slavery was abolished by Abe Lincoln in an attempt to weaken the confederacy about a year or 2 into the war and it worked.

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Maybe it was the people who ate grits and okra AGAINST the people who ate broccoli and green peas.

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That's quite the followup post you have there. Thanks for not taking this too seriously.

The entire reason why the southern states seceded is because they were being lead by a person that wasn't even in the ballot.

In the states south of the Mason-Dixon line Lincoln wasn't on the ballot, thus for him to be elected president made it clear to them that they were essentially helpless when it came to being the serfs of an industrialized abolitionist north.

It's essentially the equivalent of the modern US where the rural areas are under the domination of the urban areas, despite having very different ideas.

Of course, the comparison isn't exactly accurate, as part of the problem in the modern US is that the politicians, being the morons that they are, decided to arbitrarily fix the number of seats in the House of Representatives at 435.

The south was rebelling against being taxed with out representation. In short, they were fighting the Second American Revolution with slavery being a secondary issue that the north focused on to create a fiction that it some how had the moral high ground.

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Slavery was secondary.
Lincoin had his reasons for fighting.
Europe was trying to divide and conquer the US, IMO.
Which forced Lincoin to fight to maintain the union
and a strong front to our potential enemys.

The civil war is still going on really
and its effects are still felt to this day.
The first gun laws in the US
where to prevent pissed off blacks from become armed mobs.
the first marrage licences were to prevent blacks and whites marrying.

Lincoin was over rated.
The south was more or less right, save slavery.