what if the south had won the civil war?

Answer 1

Treading on MM Society turf but here goes - - - yes the South could have brokered a Peace if McClellan had won election in 1864 - - - even if the North was 'winning,' McClellan would have quit and said 'bye bye' to the South.

Then the South would have struggled to cope with Independence. Having been founded on the argument of 'states rights and to secure their 'peculiar institution' they would have been rent by internal dissension and generally impoverish by their own stubborn refusal to adopt industry. Jefferson Davis, the traitor (hit that thumbs down button now and report me for calling Davis a traitor), Davis would have been duly elected President every year until Death. Though the Capiotal during the War was in Richmond, power would have begun to flow West.

Terms would have been worked out to keep the Missisippi open for trade thus New Orleans would have prospered while Charleston and Savanah withered and stagmated. In fact the power of the South would have shifted to the Gulf and in time Texas and most likely Texas would have snagged the Capitol.

Along the border with the North there would have been a ten to fifty mile 'no man's land,' a scorched barren strip ringed with barb wire and warch towers and in time mines would have been invented to keep people, blacks especially from fleeingt Dixie. No slavery would not have 'died,' having fought a war to preserve their 'right' to enslave people, the South would likely have kept Slavery on the books well into the 20th Century.

It is likely the South would have fought to seize Cuba in order to Liberate the Cubans, and to gain a large territory for increasing slavery. SInce only a finite number off blacks would be needed for daily needs, the South would have started practicing eugenics as early as the 1880's - - - making abortion legal well ahead of America. They would also have resorted to 'disposing' of blacks who could no longer work. During World War One and Two the South would have risked War with the North by openly supporting Germany. Adolf Hitler would have appealed to many Southerners and may have found refuge there after World War Two.

Well I have angered enough people today my work is done toss those thumbs down for my not reckognizing the South as a Great Nest of Humanitarians who Loved their Negroes and treated them fairer then they have ever been treated.

Pax--------------------------

Answer 2

Slavery would have ended. The South would
have better off and allot race problems would not
be here. No I don't belong to the Klan or anything like that. The race problem started during Sherman's March to the sea. He know-ling let
troops get away with raping slave women.
When war was over the carpetbaggers and
other northern people caused other problems.
The Underground did not stop up in the. North
it when clear to Canada.







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Answer 3

We'd have been a NATION DIVIDED, and "every city or house divided against itself CANNOT STAND!"*

With or without the declaration of civil war, we'd have wound up in a long protracted war, a zillion internecine battles, indefinite strife and struggle and bloodshed, which would have depleted our resources and our strength, and destroyed our people and the fabric of their lives.

Instead of becoming a powerful nation, we'd have been several lesser nations, ready to be grabbed up by European powers. Our strength was built on E PLURIBUS UNUM; we are a nation of immigrants--if you see how long and how constantly Europe fought, imagine how people so close, all without their home families and traditions, would do.

Iraq has the Kurds, the Shiites, the Sunnis; we had a zillion different peoples with attachment and affiliations only to their own families and countries, unless they were made to see themselves as part of One Nation, indivisible!

(The bear answers the wolf!
I love you bearstir! You are so thorough, so passionate, so brilliant!)

Answer 4

Slavery still would be abolished, more northern people would have moved west. People in the northern parts of the United States probably would have re-allied with the British and defeated the South again, and the country would more than likely still be in shambles.

Answer 5

There would be two nations instead of one United States.

Other than that, who knows.




-K

Answer 6

what if frogs could fly?

not much would be different, slavery had to end at some point.