Who agrees the civil war should have never happened?

Question

I think if the north let the south be independant, instead of fighting, there would of been no civil war. And I am for the confederacy, as my icon shows. And I am not racist, i just believe that the north was like the british and the south was like colonial america (1700's) please, no personal attacks I have my own opinion, respect it.

colonial america commited treason against the british, I dont really see your point.

loving yankee america makes you a traitor against the british.

You say it was to fight opression, what grade are you in? the south wanted freedom from the north thats why they fought it, a text book is only as truthful as the person who writes it. Dont believe everything you read in textbooks.

Answer 1

Hi,,,, wow,, you sure are going to get a lot of ,,, dissatisfied customers on this question... lol
Being from the "deep South", Mississippi,,, and having my great grandfather and his brother fight for the South in Texas during the war of Northern Aggression!!! I may add.....

Most people think the war was about Slavery,,,, thats rubbish.. if you read the Emancipation Proclamation.... it did (Not) free the slaves from people that owned them in the North!!! Even the great General Grant had slaves right up until after the war...and numerous others did also....

Now, to address this,, some will say the South committed treason from breaking away from the Union... Well, if you will read most of the Original States ,, all considered themselves a seperate country within the United States... that is if you will read the Constitution of the United States..... That is why they broke from the others,, they felt they had every right to do so...

Now, here we are,, 2006,, If any state even thought about saying No, to the Federal Government,,,, what do you think would happen???? Is this a government by the people??? Or a people by the Government !!!! We are slowly giving away our civil rights on a daily basis,,,,, soon we will all have National Passports to go and come anywhere with in the whole of America.... What do you think will happen next???

Get ready....

Good luck

Answer 2

Well, I live in Missouri, a state essentially torn asunder by the Civil War. Had the North allowed the South to remain independent, Missouri would have been destroyed. Here's why:

Missouri voted on secession and voted to remain in. The elected legislature voted with the majority of the people. Now granted, the majority of the people in Missouri at the time lived in St. Louis, the rest of the state being pretty much rural. What was the reaction of the pro-Southern governor? Take his supporters down to Neosho in the southwest part of the state, and call for another (illegal per state constitution) vote without the pro-North legislators. Guess what happened. The Confederacy recognized the Southern government and Neosho (later Cassville after the North seized Neosho) as the legitimate state capital. The governor essentially circumvented the will of the people by doing what he wanted. Nearby Kentucky went through a similar process, and West Virginia seceded from Virginia and rejoined the union.

In short, had the South been given its independence, war would have broken out anyway, beginning in Missouri (definitely) and Kentucky (probably) over who owned what.

The whole issue over slavery and states' rights goes back to the Constitutional Convention back in the 1780s and the inability of those people to solve it then. They simply hoped the problem would solve itself later on. It did, just not in the way they imagined.

In response to an answer posted above, the Southern Constitution did prohibit the further importation of slaves into the Confederacy and called for slavery's eventual abolishment. Whether it would have happend or not, I don't know.

I don't agree with you, but I do think this is a good question.

Answer 3

If the Civil War had NOT happened, you would not be living in the USA, as that had its roots in the 13 states that were granted independence.
Also, there might well still be slavery in the Southern states, and I don't believe that you would genuinely want that, especially not if you really aren't a racist (and even in the UK we are aware that not all Southern states guys are red-necked, gun-toting racists who marry their 11 year-old cousins).
If the Civil War had not happened, it is possible that both the North and South might have been conquered by an external power, Russia or China perhaps, but because of the unification, the States were too large and powerful to be successfully invaded, just as Europe has always proven too much for just one empire (even the Romans never made it to Scotland and the Scandinavian/Norse countries).
I believe the US has been stronger for its amalgamation of North and South, though possibly this has led to problems for other countries, eg Vietnam, Korea.

Answer 4

I wish that were never a need for any war. I wish they had allow us to leave in peace, slavery would have gone and there would be a good chance that racism as we now know it would have a far less of a problem. However, I as many historians (Foote, Davis) believe that the Civil War was inevitable. The census of 1810, 1830 and 1850 found that Celtic population of white Southerns was at about 50%; 18 % English and the remainder German, French or Spanish. Southerns were seen then and now as a lesser people. Due to the harshest of the South weather, terrain and diseases criminals were sent there; some were free men but being of sub stock they and the country would be better off with them being there. The ones still working off sentences were for the same reasons sent South. The English hated us in the old country and hated and hate us here. Great Question and Avater, God Bless You and The Southern People.

Answer 5

The Civil War was an inevitable and unavoidable conflict. Mainly over slavery, tariffs, and the concept of State's rights over the Federal Governemtn. All three were intertwined.

The Civil War was not fought to end oppression as some naive unread folks might think. slaves in the border states were not immediately freed. the Emancipation proclamation came a good deal after the war started and freed those only in terrirtories still in CSA hands. Many Unionists were fighting and supporting the war to preserve the Union, not free the slaves. Unfortunately, this fact is often overlooked in the (pardon the expression) black-n-white simplistic view of the Civil War.

As to the question, the US needed the Civil War to officially end slavery and make the nation as a whole stronger. And I am a southern who had a several ancestors fight for the South.

Answer 6

Good question.

I believe that the Civil War was inevitable. Above all, the War began due to conflicting views--i.e. big central gov/small state gov vs. small central gov/big state gov.

As history has shown, what people believe is serious business--quite literally the stuff of wars. The only way in which the Civil War would not have happened is if there was no western expansion (and thus no new territories and, eventually, states being attmitted into the Union). Western expansion only aggravated the tensions between two opposing translations of the Constitution.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

i do. georgia should have been allowed to secede from the union, along with any other state that wanted to. what is the point of a free society if one is not free to leave it when one chooses? big government was the problem then, and it continues to be a problem today. this country was originally set up so the states could run themselves. that way, people who thought alike could live together under laws that they all, for the most part, agreed on. but somewhere along the line, the idea of a central government to oversee the running of the states was adopted, and has grown to the point where the states have very little real power in running themselves. instead of people moving to where there are others that think like they do, they expect the laws to be set up to suit them. and as we all know, you can't please everyone all the time. that's the biggest problem with the government, in my humble opinion.

by the way, i wouldn't worry too much about the people who equate a confederate flag with racism. they tend to be the "please everybody all of the time" sort, in other words, impractical and not too bright.

Answer 9

People in the South call me The Damn Yankee because I haven't moved out of the area. I've been here 5 years!

Answer 10

True but wars happen for a reason mainly because the main issues could not have been settled otherwise without a fight to see whose RIGHTS was more right!!!!!!!! It's a lesson that can be learnt from!!!!!