Why do some people think the Civil War was unneccessary?

Question

Revisionists, here is you chance.

Why do people think that Lincon should have let the South go on their merry way? I think it's crap personally, but I'll gladly hear out the other side.

As far as I know, Lincon acted within the bounds of the Constitution (The president has the power to suspend Habeus Corpus in times of insurrection ie. Civil wars).

Answer 1

I have never heard anyone try to make that argument...and I'm not sure how they could. The Civil War was pretty much inevitable and had been brewing since the founding of the United States. We should all be greatful that the American people had the fortitude to soldier on through it. It's hard to imagine that we'd make it through a month of a war like that these days as fickle as people are and with the media reporting on every single casualty.

Answer 2

In the primary quarter of the nineteenth century, the frontier was once driven past the Mississippi River. In 1803, President Jefferson negotiated the acquisition of Louisiana with the French. From 1816 to 1821, six new states have been created -- Indiana, Illinois, Maine, Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri. In 1865 the frontier line traditionally adopted the western limits of the states bordering the Mississippi River, bulging outward to comprise the jap sections of Kansas and Nebraska. A mere quarter-century later, just about all this nation were carved into states and territories. Western enlargement resulted in growing conflicts with the Indians of the West. New England and the Middle Atlantic states have been the most important facilities of producing, trade and finance. Principal merchandise have been textiles, lumber, apparel, equipment, leather-based and woolen items. The South featured an economic climate headquartered on agriculture. The Midwest, with its boundless prairies and quickly developing populace, flourished. In 1849, gold was once learned in California. An essential stimulus to western prosperity was once the high-quality benefit in transportation amenities; from 1850 to 1857 the Appalachian Mountain barrier was once pierced through 5 railway trunk strains linking the Midwest and the East. Between 1840 and 1860, the United States bought its first wave of immigrants. Nearly four.five Million immigrants entered the nation. In Europe as a complete, famine, emerging populations and political unrest prompted emigration. During the Civil War, the government helped fill its roster of troops through encouraging emigration from Europe. By 1865, approximately one in 5 Union squaddies was once a wartime immigrant.

Answer 3

Seriously, I once met somebody who thought that the south had won the Civil War, or as he called it, "The war of northern aggression." It all comes down to education, we need more education in this country. For a person to actually come down on the side of the Civil War being unnecessary is baffling to the mind.

OK to the "answerer" above me, who claims that people on the left would support slavery, are you out of your freaking mind? Really? Lincoln was a liberal, at that time in our history, the Republicans were the liberals. The south was, and still is conservative. War is wrong, in most cases the problems can be solved or avoided without war. Iraq, Vietnam and Korea are three perfect examples. Considering that liberals fight for human rights and conservatives rarely support any human rights fight, you don't have a leg to stand on with that assumption.

Answer 4

The ones who like monarchies, high church anglican episcopacy, and sympathize with the Cavaliers of the English Civil War would have liked to have kept slavery around for a while longer.

Answer 5

The US would be much better off today without the South.

They are all red states, and send the most vile people to Washington. Bush, Lott, Thurmond, Gingrich, Harris, Goode, etc. (Please don't try to correct me by telling me some of these people aren't in Congress. Duh"

Other than a few bands, I can't think of too much the South has given the world. Oh, the lynching, that's right.

Answer 6

Humans love to kill each other. It's our original sin. I think that Wars are unneccessary. Humans and Politicians use any reason to kill each other, this was just another reason.

Answer 7

could you expand on your question? it was necessary for the north to keep the states united and under control. it was necessary for the south to fight for their state rights and the right to sell goods to who they wanted. but in my opinion,it could have been avoided.

Answer 8

it doesn't change people's minds, just ups the death toll

Answer 9

I think all wars are un neccessary{Maybe one day we will learn to communicate and agree?

Answer 10

Because they don't know the history of it.