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The Civil War Opinions: Discuss & Debate

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Question:
“Why did the North fight? Why didn't it just let the South secede?”
posted by shmooper - 357 days ago comments (0) This question has no rating
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Opinion:
“Now that's a good question. I realize this will be a somewhat controversial idea... but I think the US might have been better off, in the long run, if Lincoln had simply let the South walk away. Many of the country's worst problems -- racism, poverty, backwardness -- have been disproportionately centered in the South *since* the Civil War. Maybe a US consisting of the Northeast, Midwest, and West (but no South) would have reached even higher heights than the country we now know. But then I admit that I'm a liberal Northeastern elitist, so I would think that...”
posted by milomenderbender - 343 days ago comments (1) This answer has no rating
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southernbell 321 days ago said:
The US should not have just consisted of the Northeast, Midwest, West, and the SOUTH would have saved a lot of deaths among Civil War fighters. Instead of trying to force opinions on others, let them be them. The South wasn't being inhuman or any of the other things that you may have heard; the South was simply doing what they thought was right. Some people may believe that the South was in the wrong, but whenever you look at it from a central point of view, they weren't. It was just a way to make a living the best way they can. If you believe enslaved African Americans is wrong then what are your beliefs on Cubans and Mexicans coming into America and taking OUR jobs. As Americans, it is our duty to protect our jobs and country as well. The North shouldn't have fought and they should have left the South alone. YOU believe that what you are doing is wrong.
Opinion:
“Abraham Lincoln believed it was a test of the union's strength. If the South seceded then any state could secede if it disagreed over an issue. The Civil War answered many of the fundamental questions of the American experiment: free or slave, one or many, united or divided. But it did so at a tremendous cost.”
posted by ellen - 344 days ago comments (0) This answer has no rating