who shouldve won the civil war?

Question

i am not trying to debate the issue of slavery, and dont call me a racist for my oppinions. i am trying to find out who wouldve done better as a country, with international relationships, etc. even how laws would be. i think that if john wilkes boothe wouldnt have killed abe, the north shoulda won. but if history woulda turned out that abe was gonna be killed anyhow, i think the south should have won. comment on what you think and why.

say whatevers on your mind and dont be afraid to say it, its a free debate.

i am talking about everything BUT slavery

what i mean by abe being killed is that i feel that the president after him taxed the south and did a lot to try to get back at them for seceding from the union. and people, dont base your whole comment on that the south had slavery. abe only wanted to keep slavery in the south, he didnt want to get rid of it. and what else i ment to say is to say what the leadership after the civil war whould of been like.

Answer 1

the south Should have won the war all the problems come
from the northern states.The south would have freed the slaves with a few years.any way other
countries cotton crop was catching up with souths.

Answer 2

The Civil war was already decided when Boothe assassinated Lincoln. What Boothe managed to do was take a great politician and negotiator out of the picture just when the country needed his skills the most.

Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, did not have near the necessary political skill or talent to manage a broken country still fiercely divided after the Civil War. Uysses S. Grant's administration fared no better.

For the next twenty years following the Civil War, Lincoln's Republican party would try in vein to reconstruct the South, restore law and order, and most importantly uphold the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

Although they tried, in the end, Lincoln's Republicans failed to gain any real equality for the black man in the Southern States. Post-reconstruction was essentially a Federal Government failure and embarrassment.

Like many had said during the time "The North may have won the war but the South won the peace".

It would take another 100 years and 2nd revolution (human rights movement led by Martin Luther King) before real equally, envisioned by some in the 1860's, would actually become an attainable reality for the freed blacks in the south.

Answer 3

I think that history cannot be changed and the North won, simple as that. If the South had not lost General Lees best commanding General Stonewall Jackson then maybe Gettysburg would have been different.

Its all speculation. After all Lincoln only freed the slaves in the SOUTHERN states that had already sesceded and were not a part of the USA anymore until they lost and we were reunited in 1865. Wether or not his assination would have made a differance or not is hard to say.

I know its not a question about slavery here, but had the south won slavery would have continued alot longer, so it was still good the North won.

I do understand why the South felt they way they did, but they could have found a way to employ them rather than enslave them.

Answer 4

The war was over when John Wilks Booth killed Abe Lincolon.

On April 10, after hearing the news that Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Booth told Louis J. Weichmann, a friend of John Surratt, and a boarder at Mary Surratt's house that he was done with the stage and that the only play he wanted to present henceforth was Venice Preserv'd. Although Mr. Weichmann did not understand the reference, Venice Preserv'd is about an assassination plot.

On April 11, Booth was in the crowd outside the White House when Lincoln gave an impromptu speech from his window. When Lincoln stated that he was in favor of granting suffrage to the former slaves, Booth turned to Lewis Powell and urged him to shoot the president on the spot. Powell refused. Booth muttered that it would be the last speech Lincoln would ever make.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth#The_assassination

The Civil War had little to do with Slavery and a lot to do with State Rights!

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a major war between the United States (the "Union") and eleven Southern states which declared that they had a right to secession and formed the Confederate States of America, led by President Jefferson Davis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

If the South had won there would have been two countries!

Answer 5

I don't really see your reasoning behind how the south should have won if we knew abe was going to be killed. Abe being killed didn't really affect our international relationships and I really think if the south had won we would be even worse with dealing with international relations because more people (excluding those who would rebel the racist mentality) would have grown up with the same mentality as the south. Iraqis have a different colored skin so we must hate them? Now that would definitely not be a good outcome. Also, the south had a lot of crazy laws that dealt specifically with race that would have caused more pain for anyone who is not of a white skin tone because more states would probably enact those as well (even though the north was still pretty racist at the time of the civil war). No matter how I look at it, I just don't think the U.S. would have been any better off if the South had won and I think Civil Rights would have taken a lot longer to accomplish.

Answer 6

There is no doubt we would be living a different life now had the South won the war.I believe the South would have been
the more powerful country.With the slaves still being owned by their masters the South would have been like China today.Thus out growing the north and being a more dominate
country in world affairs.The north would have been like the United States is today with all the slaves going north like the Mexicans are today.We might even have border patrol boats
cruising the Ohio River keeping all the slaves where they belong.

Answer 7

I think you need more info. Most people think you mean only slavery. I look at it this way the north won yes but did they do a good job with what they got, I say no. They burned down way to much tax the hell out of the south and caused most states to be poorer then they would have.

Answer 8

Based on the state's rights issue I believe the South should have won. I also believe that the English were hoping the South would win, then they would have attacked the now weakened Southern states, gaining a foot hold on American soil, they would have then moved on to try to reclaim the Northern territory and reestablish their colonial empire. Remember we were less than a hundred years from the revolution and even less from the 1812 attempt to return.

Answer 9

The Civil War certainly decided the issue of Slavery, but it also decided the issue of States' Rights.

I think that had we kept States' Rights, we wouldn't have the IRS, ATF, SSA, HUD, or DEA, and "National Debt" would be something that only happened to other countries.

Answer 10

The North. The South seceded from the union and turn against the rest of the country. That constitutes a traitor.