^ You talk about the power hungry north attacking the south but you forget it was a rebellion and the only natural reaction of a rebelling part of country is to take it back by force so don't try to make it out like the big bad wolf attack another country fact is the south was not another country it received no recognition by any other country in the world all of them view it as a rebellion so any action taken by the united states during the civil war was a action any other country would have done. And yes slavery was just one more reason used by the north to justify the war which it really did not need to use since there is no more reason in the world then taking back what belongs to it.
As if I didn't know I'd stir the bee hive by saying all that, haha! You fellas take me too seriously, but still, you have fallen into my trap of argumentation! Let the pointless battle commence!
The term USA does not stand for "Kingdom" or "Empire" or such single-unit dictated nation. USA stands for "United States" of America, every state is its own governing body with various differing laws but that unite under the constitution and, what is originally suppose to be, a government "for the people, by the people." It's not like half of England was dividing itself and calling itself Southern England and Northern England. These were already separate yet symbiotic states holding under the same constitution and voted in governmental electives.
And about slavery, there comes repercussions when you suddenly decide to release all the slaves in an entire country at once. For one thing, you're creating a huge competition in wages for white workers and suddenly hitting the economy with an army of penny-less and hungry people, and also, the southerners feared for their own security; all those slaves of theirs being freed could instantly turn around to take revenge on them! Even taking a quote from Lincoln who acknowledges this with the abolishing of slavery in the south:
Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. But in all honesty, don't take my word for it, go read a few articles (that way you get a better picture and not just one person's single view) about the issues leading up to the civil war and the secession of the Confederate states. I'm just defending the Confederate side of things because no one hardly does, and because I'm going to be playing as a Confederate officer, so I gotta defend my cause!
And hey Duuring, you're an example of that north-south bias I was talking about, as to deminstrate, I'll take the opposite side and say: how's that Obama treating ya, 'left' side buddy? Glad you voted him into office, he sure saved our economy and brought us to a much better place!
Assuming you live in the states...
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