if Robert Lee won the civil war in america what do you think is gonna happen?

Question

i think another civil war will happen...

Answer 1

Robert E. Lee was so respected I would imagine he would have been elected President of the CSA given the nation's birth. I don't know however if he would have lived long enough to do much about anything if he did make office. I would imagine if he had any pull, it would have been to tie the bonds with the U.S. in the best possible respect as he so often told people to be good citizens in defeat.

Slavery would have been pushed out mainly by the fact of foriegn relations. The South would had to make the decision most likely to trade with other nations.

Other states might have slowly drifted to the south lured by the new government this would have caused more conflicts.

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guitargadfly- made some points but the slavery point is still a recycled "what if" of the situation. At the time of the outbreak of war only a few states had joined the Confederacy, others were in debate, true, but the last nail in the coffin was the military build up that Lincoln had called for. Slavery was still prime income in New York as the sale and import of the institution still thrived. So don't forget the North made profit. Also the biggest reason the Confederacy could not get help in the war was the stance upon slavery itself. Had the Confederacy ever hoped to open trade routes overseas, this would have been a large issue, and the government would have had to bend knee to the evergrowing moral changes of the largest free nations. The imancipation of slaves and civil rights were two complete different issues and people get these two terms mixed together. The government that freed the slaves did little to protect and help these people once the "legal paperwork" was done.

People also confuse "states rights" with slavery. Yes it could be considered a factor but given the fact Lincoln held slavery as a bargaining chip to lure the States back into the Union, it really doesn't say much for arguement that the Confederacy was all about owning slaves since no terms were ever agreed upon in that order. Keep in mind again, this is a Union that helped to push the Indians off thier land. So the North that was so great to free the slaves as a moral cause, murdered Indians and forced them on death marches to ever changing "homes". Such great Northern heros that fought in the Civil War died for this cause....remember Custard?

People who cite moral debates about what a good change it was need to look at the facts. We place blame on a government that existed five years. Slavery existed from the Revolutionary War. The murder and mistreatment of Native Americans existed after the Civil War, and can anyone tell me when Civil Rights caught up with the belief that good had been done by the war?

The Civil War was about the failure of politics, the shift and unequal balance of a government pure and simple. It was rooted deep in our history and it was foreseen for ages. Most nations have gone through this same struggle for different reasons of belief.

Men do not starve themselves and walk barefoot on marches to protect the right to own slaves they never had.

The Union did not want to have the millions of acres in land, population and farms going off on its own. Again, the reason we went against the Indians...."LAND" ....

I respect the belief of guitargadfly, but I feel that his view is very narrow minded. War is never a black and white issue.
Someone with a level 5 on this thing should at least put more effort into his answers.

Answer 2

This is a question that will be pondered for all of time. Thank God they DID NOT win it, or the US would have been diminished so badly that the future would have been very dark for the world, especially when WWII rolled around......
Since all the States that suceeded from the Union passed laws shortly thereafter legalizing slavery,it would have been legal in the CSA. Yes, Lee would have been elected President... and NO slaver would not have gone away for a long , long time, after those States fought so hard to preserve that institution. That last statement is a fact. The South fought to preserve slavery.
All the talk about "States Rights" and all that is drivel and spin doctorism.. WHAT "states rights" ??? The right to keep slaves! What else! ?

Answer 3

If Robert E. Lee had won, the south would have remained its own country. There probably would have been more wars, but since they would be between two countries, they wouldn't be called "civil".

Robert E. Lee was approached by the North first, but he didn't want to be involved at all, and only got involved because his home was on the front lines in the South. Who would have been chosen as a Southern general, had Lee refused? Would the North have won if Lee had been their general?

Answer 4

if the confederacy had won the civil war... we might be flying confederate flags, whiskey would be ridiculously popular (ha!), slavery would most likely either still be here, or dimiinished to a point...the whole civil rights movement may have been delayed somehow...it would have probably been a lot harder for rosa parks, dr martin luther king jr, and malcolm x, to be the much-needed influential leaders that they were... there might still be stupid rules like bus seating, segregation, different educational and employment opportunities...it wouldn't be pretty.

trying to figure out a "what if...?" such as this... it's really hard to say what would be happening right now... though there is a certainty that our perceptions would be different than they are now...probably less tolerance, less civil rights advocacy, more fear, ...though i am sure there would be those who still support freedom and anti-slavery (if there were still slaves), and disapproved of such ridiculously inhuman ways of thinking...

who knows? but i'm sure glad it happened the way it did for a reason...a good reason...

Answer 5

It's Robert E. Lee

Answer 6

Yes! Yes! Yes! I believe there will be another civil war; it will be between stamp collectors and coin collectors!

Answer 7

There would still be discrimination and slavery

Answer 8

Im not sure, but you look really, really really cute in your avatar

Answer 9

I will safe you first before it's happen!...call me s.o.s....