could the civil war have been avoided? why or why not?

Answer 1

We know it was not over Slavery Lincoln repeatedly offered to allow anyone back in the Union WITH THEIR SLAVES and a promise they could keep them! No one took him up on the offer.

It was inevitable. The 1810, 1830 and 1850 census showed the South to be made up of roughly 50% Celtic, 30% English and the remaining 20% were German, French or Spanish. The Irish Potatoes famine of 1846-1850 killed a million plus Irishmen, the problem there was food but the British took it for themselves. Another good example of who has suffered under slavery. The real point the majority of English settled up North and continued to this day their opinion of superiority and want of control over our lot. .

There are these who have the need to demonize and discredit anything they don't like with or understand. Was the War over Slavery? Yes and no, it was a part, not as much as many would have you believe but again more than others would have you think. The renowned Shelby Foote, stated after his appearance in Ken Burns “Civil War” that the producer manipulated and edited his statements to make it appear that he the leading authority on the war was saying the war was over slavery, when he and any reasonable scolder knew better.

The war was over money. In the 1770s, the South had every reason to continue the relationship with England, one of its best customers. It was the manufacturing North that was getting the short end of that stick. Southerners joined the Revolutionary War out of patriotism, idealism, and enlightened political philosophy such as motivated Jefferson, not patriotism, philosophy and economic betterment which inspired the North.

In 1860, the shoe was on the other foot. Southern agrarians were at heel to the nation's bankers and industrialists. That just got worse with the election of the Republican Lincoln, bringing back into power the party favoring the wealthy supply side, as it still does.

Then as now central to that, party's interest was keeping down the cost of manufacture. Today labor is the big cost, so today they move the plants offshore and leave US workers to their fate. Back before the US labor movement existed the big cost was raw materials, and the GOP was just as unprincipled toward its Southern suppliers as it is today toward labor. Thanks to modern graveyard science and surviving records, researchers know that in 1760, 100 years before the War Between the States, Charleston, South Carolina, had the largest population of slaves and we say proudly the SECOND LARGEST SLAVE POPULATION WAS IN NEW YORK CITY.
One of the main quarrels was about taxes paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. This tax was called a tariff. Southerners felt these tariffs were unfair and aimed toward them because they imported a wider variety of goods than most Northern people. Taxes were also placed on many Southern goods that were shipped to foreign countries, an expense that was not always applied to Northern goods of equal value. An awkward economic structure allowed states and private transportation companies to do this, which also affected Southern banks that found themselves paying higher interest rates on loans made with banks in the North. As industry in the North expanded, it looked towards southern markets, rich with cash from the lucrative agricultural business, to buy the North's manufactured goods. The situation grew worse after several "panics", including one in 1857 that affected more Northern banks than Southern. Southern financiers found themselves burdened with high payments just to save Northern banks that had suffered financial losses through poor investment. However, it was often cheaper for the South to purchase the goods abroad. In order to "protect" the northern industries Jackson slapped a tariff on many of the imported goods that could be manufactured in the North. When South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification in November 1832, refusing to collect the tariff and threatening to withdraw from the Union, Jackson ordered federal troops to Charleston. A secession crisis was averted when Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833. The Panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression began to gnaw like a hungry animal on the flesh of the American system. The disparity between northern and southern economies was exacerbated. Before and after the depression the economy of the South prospered. Southern cotton sold abroad totaled 57% of all American exports before the war. The Panic of 1857 devastated the North and left the South virtually untouched. The clash of a wealthy, agricultural South and a poorer, industrial North was intensified by abolitionists who were not above using class struggle to further their cause.
In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal government, centered in Washington, D.C., was changing. Northern and mid-western states were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. Southern states lost political power because the population did not increase as rapidly. As one portion of the nation grew larger than another, people began to talk of the nation as sections. This was called sectionalism. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern states felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington. Southerners believed that state laws carried more weight than Federal laws, and they should abide by the state regulations first. This issue was called State's Rights and became a very warm topic in congress.

These are facts not emotions or unsupported claims, now what was the War over?


God Bless You and The Southern People.

Answer 2

No way ever. The differences between the people here were in abundance and as the country expanded and industrialized and the foreign influences, were in abundance. In many ways when anything organizes like the colonies it takes time to settle in and used to things and people. But inevitably people will squabble and part ways either business reasons, religion, political, etc., and we grew to that point and to reshape the original government rather than split us apart and allow France, Spain, Austia, Prussia,Turks, etc., own our Southern territories with the then existing American people in business of cotton, and tobacco, we needed to kick the tar out of the South but good, because after all they would not have owned their lands either if they went the way they were going. France was in Mexico and they had every intension of taking our southern territories, they always resented losing Louisiana. Spain wanted Florida and the Keys? Austria the east, the Prussians et al were investors too on the split of this great nation. But they lost and so did our Southern troops unfortunately, they really never knew why they were fighting they thought is was a black thing? or a Yankee thing? Politics is a dirty business isnt it? Great Britain never wanted to fight with us again they were satisfied just being a business investor with us. But all the rest of them were greedy and still are. Politicians are dirty liars and all that slavery stuff is just the way it went down, but Lincoln's wife was Mary Todd a bankers daughter. Look up her father and his investors? And then Douglas the guy that ran against Lincoln and his allegiances? Conspiracies are everywhere in that story. How many troops went to Texas to bring gold to get troops from Mexico to help their stupid selves? Texas had already fought with mexico and won but the South was stupid enough to try and recruit them? Well they lost the gold to the Mexican Maximillion or Pancho Villa or both?

Answer 3

The Am. Civil conflict greater right into a lots bigger factor than all people imagined till now each and everything. probable, the South's dismissal of the North's popularity of being business enterprise adult adult males and not warring parties from honor led the South to think of the conflict would be over in some months and the "rightness" of their reason would additionally supply them victory... in spite of everything they have been particular God grew to become into on their side. The North believed that God grew to become into on THEIR side, and would have concept that their commercial would and worldwide friends would whip the South speedy. sure those issues did, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it took this style of long, painful time. because of the fact the Civil conflict grew to become right into a conflict of economies, it incredibly is perplexing to think of of ways it could have been avoided, incredibly given the hardness of the stands of the two sides. The South knew that combating slavery could be the top of their wealth source... great plantations of lots hand-artwork... and the top of their life form too. The North grew to become into in keeping with machines and the effect of the commercial Revolution for their wealth, and for this reason needed much less hand-artwork to grow to be prosperous. So, the Civil conflict grew to become into no longer fought over slavery as such yet over the style of massive wealth that slavery delivered; and that the North did no longer desire with a view to get prosperous. in line with risk having great useful mechanized farm approaches that eradicated hand-artwork would have avoided the Civil conflict. in line with risk an quite clever and useful chief would have preached slow exchange to soothe the South and calm the anti-slavery individuals. in line with risk if the North would have purely close down cotton exports by skill of skill of Naval stress that would have stopped the land battles. incredibly, i'm no longer able to think of of the thank you to have avoided it. We had extra constructive think of no longer person-friendly approximately this count, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, because of the fact a clean around of states leaving the Union are in the works.

Answer 4

Yes if:
....The north was not bent on making the south stay with the Union states no matter what...

If the south had given up slavery...

If a plan could have been devised to allow the south to industrailize without slavery and show the plantation owners that they could earn more that way.

If pro slave president and not Lincoln had been elected.

Answer 5

I don't think so. The basis of the war was in the balance of Federal and State powers- an issue that would have remained until decisively resolved.

Answer 6

no, because the South had a completely different idea about how the US should be and Lincoln wasn't about to let them go that easily. You should see the movie Confederate States of America, it is about how the US would be now if the South had won.

Answer 7

yes, of-course. People who are getting involved in such a war or a possible war should think and re-thinking about all the possible outcome of such a "waste" war.

Answer 8

No because man is not civil. Mist

Answer 9

no, because the United State would have divided and we would have been at constant war with each other.