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Originally Posted by crockett
Ask yourself this... If The same southern states choose to secede from the United States today do you think the govt would allow it to happen with out military intervention?
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Heck no they wouldn't be "allowed" to by the Feds. Too much money at stake.
And yeah, these days it would be nasty if it ever happened. But it won't of course.
By the way, on the subject of slavery...slavery was NOT going to end and wasn't why the civil war was fought.
Slavery was going to be alive and well in any state that already had it.
Ending slavery in all the states wasn't done until the middle of the actual war in 1863 with the "Emancipation Proclamation" and didn't become official until after the war when the U.S. congress with it's new members passed the 13th amendment. The Civil War started in 1861.
And it started when the State Of South Carolina seceded and ordered U.S. troops out of the fort in Charleston.
Fort Sumter was smack dab in the middle of the port of Charleston which was the center of commerce for the state.
When the Union army refused...the South Carolina army attacked.
There were no casualties on either side by the way. The union army surrendered the fort and then politicians from both the southern states and the northern states went ballistic over it and the war started.
Fort Sumter still stands today by the way.
If any of you are ever in Charleston there is a cool boat ride that takes you out to the ruins of the Fort and it has a museum in it as well.
It's a nice way to spend an afternoon in Charleston.