Why did the American Civil War Actually Happen? #history #civilwar #documentary

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[WakenAngels]

Algorithm is SUS for showing me this while im watching Civil War

[dlsamson]

Let's take a moment to consider that Dred Scott technically made slavery legal in all of the states. You might not be able to buy or sell a slave in Vermont but you could buy one in Virginia & keep him/her as a slave in Vermont.

[CJGuy]

Forgot to mention the novel Uncle Tom that fueled much of the Abolitionist Movement against slavery.

[MadZwe]

Remember, if anyone tries to retort with “states right”, reply with “to do what”

[redt]

My dad admitted to me he still supports the south and the confederate cause in 2024. I told him I read Ulysses S. Grants book and he told me to not show my face at his house anymore. I proudly accepted his offer. I was in the military for 6 years and I am proud to have served with any sort of black, Hispanic, Asian or Filipino people. Blatant racism like that infuriates me beyond anything.

Edit: I appreciate the support to those that have given it! I also appreciate everyone who disagrees because it shows your true character and intentions for everyone to see. And to those saying this didn’t happen, were you there with me when my father told me this? Did you serve with me in the Navy? Were you overseas with me or *on* the high seas with me with my brothers and sisters in arms? Nah, just a bunch of cowards and shit talkers.

[kylehicks]

No one ever mentions that slavery was widespread, but only 2 countries fought wars over it following being banned by the Catholic Church, which bankrupted France and led to the Louisiana Purchase, and the US, which cost the South 1/3rd of their military aged men, and 100yrs of economic consequences. Much of this was because the Catholic Church condemned slavery in the early 1800s, and so many other nation's ended slavery by writ instead of conflict after that or around that time.

The South never should have fought the lost cause. They're still held back by one of the dumbest decisions to fight ever.

[billkallas]

Southern slaveholders were mad that there would be no expansion of slavery, to the West. Every Rebel state constitution said it was about slavery.

[kriegmesserdclxvi]

In other words, it was about slavery. And people have been whinig about being denied the right to deny other people their rights ever since.

[randomteenageboy]

Combination of slavery, regional/cultural differences and identities, economics, and political power.

[davidcanfield]

The wealthy who owned large plantations feared that their economic advantage and ultimately their wealth would be eliminated if they could not keep their slaves if the balance in Congress was not maintained. They saw that the shift in favor of abolition was inevitable. Since they were in control of the southern state governments, they had all the poorer farmers, who couldn't afford slaves, band together in the Confederate Army to defend their wealth. Nothing has changed since. The rich and powerful start wars and the poor and powerless fight in them.

[stargazer-elite]

YouTube showing me this literally a day after the final episode of checkmate Lincoinites released 😂

[laj]

The South: We will fight for the right to force other people to do our work for us😅😅

[bradhuffjr]

All the strippers I ever dated had fathers that thought the south would rise again.

[rickflose]

1845 was just the other day when you consider history

[richardyong]

They saw slaves as property which is protected under the constitution, their overreliance on slavery in their economy would inevitably lead to war given the sharp division on this issue

[khafreahmose]

People often forget that slavery existed as long as humans did. America was one of the first civilizations to ban the millennia-old practice.

[snidecommenter]

Part of the conflict was a conflict between two economic systems. Chattel slavery and wage slavery.

[LeandroMartinho]

Funny how James Buchanan didn't pick sides and let the country descend into more division and eventually into the horrors of the American civil war

[JPJ]

Fun Fact about Russia: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11, 000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire.

London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene.
Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it.


There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.

[Skippinnfliplin]

Its all about the money. Starting in the early 1800s, the North had more political, monetary, and voring power than the South, and used that to make slavery unviable.

The end goal of this was to basically force the South into Unionizing with the North. At the time the "States" in The United States referenced the individual nationhood of each state, but by the mid-1800s the North and South behaved a lot like two economically competing nations in an EU-style confederation for the purposes of wider unity and geopolitics. The North and South were destined to go to war eventually.

Plantation owners, not wanting to lose their lucrative slave plantations, used heavy propaganda to convince the Southern population at large that ending slavery would result in chaos and poverty for them (in that respect the slaveowners were correct). The South also relied heavily on conscripts, which were invariably poor and dissafected already.