Quote:I cannot believe how you can ignore the entire history of the period leading up to the war.  

 

What was the most popular novel of the 1850s?  Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was the most important and controversial Supreme Court decision of the 1850s?   Dredd Scott

Why did a Southern senator beat a Northern senator on the floor of the senate with a cane? 

Why did congressmen start taking guns onto the floor of the congress? 

What was the Kansas-Nebraska act?   Why did they call it "bleeding Kansas?"  

What was the grand compromise authored by Henry Clay? 

What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates? 

Who was John Brown?  Frederick Douglass? 

Why did the election of Lincoln cause the South to secede? 

 

This is all just off the top of my head.  The history of the decade leading up to the Civil War was all about the controversy over slavery.   The southern states stated in their articles of secession, which I have provided to you, that they were seceding over the issue of slavery and the threat to their way of life and their property, African slaves.  The majority of wealth in the south was the value of the African slaves.  

 

You ignore all this and say the civil war was fought over the issue of whether the states could leave the union. That's like a person filing for divorce just to prove they can do it.  Well, why did they want to leave the union in the first place?  

 

You have gone back and re-written history to fit your personal political beliefs.   That's what you've done. 

 

Keep it up. You are obviously more educate on the subject than Eric, and I enjoy your takes. Don't get too worked up with Eric, though. His personal political agenda has convinced him he is an expert in every field imaginable (economy, foreign policy, history, health care etc.). I don't think I've ever seen him concede to being wrong.

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