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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (121937)4/10/2010 1:45:17 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
Andy Jackson squashed states rights back in the 1830s. The Civil War simply ratified that reality. Slavery was the cause in that Lincoln wanted to admit the westerm territories as non-slave states to overwhelm the Southern voting bloc in Congress. When Fremont freed the slaves at the start of the war, he had to reverse his proclamation and get chewed out by Abe. But many northerners thought the war was for abolition, even if the govt. didn't.

There were some odd points. Robert E. Lee and John Singleton Mosby were anti-slavery. Tecumseh Sherman was pro slavery. Geography seemed more important that slavery when it came to for whom you fought.
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