–“The Civil War was fought to force the States who chose to leave the Union back into the Union”–@DylanMAllman
Yes you’re correct. Why?
(a) territorial and wealth advantage of western expansion.
(b) protection of those already ‘entrepreneurially’ settling those areas.
(c) western expansion was necessary to keep the ‘warlike’ europeans out of ‘our continent’.
(d) The north had industrialized but the south had yet not, so the south could not abandon slavery without a massive investment plan that must be partly paid for by the north by federal borrowing for the transformation.
(e) western expansion would have caused the new agrarian territories to ally with the south, and in doing so transfer power from the north to the south – which was intolerable for the north but an advantage for the south, because the majority of taxes were paid by southerners, in turn, because the majority of federal taxes were collected from foreign trade by the south not domestic sales and distribution by the north.
(f) So casting an economic issue of the simple financial and economic reality of slaves as production capital as if it was a moral one over slavery is just a nonsense game for the infantilized mind. Had the north agreed to borrow the money to repatriate the slaves so that the south could use the money to industrialize and therefore compete with northern industrial farmers, then there would have been no civil war.
Instead we paid with 600K dead and many times that projected cost including the crisis we feel today.
9:07 PM · Dec 28, 2023
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