“All we ask is to be left alone” (Jefferson Davis.) Nowadays people talk about eliminating confederate monuments and the rebel flag due to its connection to the civil war. This call for action is caused by the belief that the civil war was fought over slavery. This is simply not true from the events before and even during the war show other causes are to blame, but were swept up into obscurity. An examination of primary and secondary sources will reveal the historical importance of this momentous event.
The belief that the war was fought over slavery goes back to the 1850s when a northern senator and a southern senator going back and forth over whether the western states would be free states or slave states. This conflict resulted in more regulations …show more content…
The south has always said that the war was fought over taxes(specifically tariffs), and everyone believes that we say this to rationalize what happened and make excuses about it not being about slavery. This is untrue by examining the economies of the north and the south you find that the north was dependent upon the south being as productive as possible, and to control how wealthy the north became they passed high tariffs on southern goods forcing the south to sell everything to the north making the north wealthy at the expense of the south. This is the main cause of the civil war, and why the formation of the confederate states of America was purely patriotic and …show more content…
Lincoln becoming president was soon met with North Carolina seceding from the union. This action led to many southern states following North Carolina’s example. (Meltzer, Milton p.25) They called themselves the Confederate states of America. They made their own government and constitution modeled after the U.S.’s constitution. They even elected a President in this time Jefferson Davis. Sounds like a country that is rather proficient does it. I told you that in order to discuss this that faithful day when the war started April 9, 1861 South Carolina confederates bombard Fort Sumter an unprovoked attack. This is also incorrect the union provoked the attack by refusing to negotiate which is what Jefferson Davis and the Confederate congress tried to do, however the newly elected president Lincoln refused to negotiate because that would be recognizing the confederates as their own nation. This attack led to many others across the confederate
The belief that the war was fought over slavery goes back to the 1850s when a northern senator and a southern senator going back and forth over whether the western states would be free states or slave states. This conflict resulted in more regulations …show more content…
The south has always said that the war was fought over taxes(specifically tariffs), and everyone believes that we say this to rationalize what happened and make excuses about it not being about slavery. This is untrue by examining the economies of the north and the south you find that the north was dependent upon the south being as productive as possible, and to control how wealthy the north became they passed high tariffs on southern goods forcing the south to sell everything to the north making the north wealthy at the expense of the south. This is the main cause of the civil war, and why the formation of the confederate states of America was purely patriotic and …show more content…
Lincoln becoming president was soon met with North Carolina seceding from the union. This action led to many southern states following North Carolina’s example. (Meltzer, Milton p.25) They called themselves the Confederate states of America. They made their own government and constitution modeled after the U.S.’s constitution. They even elected a President in this time Jefferson Davis. Sounds like a country that is rather proficient does it. I told you that in order to discuss this that faithful day when the war started April 9, 1861 South Carolina confederates bombard Fort Sumter an unprovoked attack. This is also incorrect the union provoked the attack by refusing to negotiate which is what Jefferson Davis and the Confederate congress tried to do, however the newly elected president Lincoln refused to negotiate because that would be recognizing the confederates as their own nation. This attack led to many others across the confederate