Was the Civil War Inevitable?
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2021
- The US Civil War remains one of America's bloodiest and most impactful conflicts, leading to the end of slavery in the US, and redefining American identity as Americans started identifying with their country rather than their states for the first time. Such a major conflict did not happen in a vacuum, though; in this video, we detail the situations that led the US toward civil war, and try to answer the question, "was the Civil War inevitable?"
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4:07 this part always gets me, the thought of someone unironically saying "well I love the sub-humans I own, so slavery is a good thing actually" is absolutely insane to me.
Also, another great video! keep it up!
Yeah, I read a book called "Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom" for one of my classes, which is mostly a commentary on the diary of the titular plantation owner Landon Carter, who lived during the Revolution, and it's amazing how much dissonance there is between how he describes his treatment of his slaves, and his later recollections of it. Like, he talks about beating his slaves, forcing them to work when injured because he thinks they're faking it, subjecting their children to medical treatments he expressly considers too strong for his own children, etc. but then when a bunch ran away he wrote entry after entry about how he couldn't believe they would betray him when he treated them so lovingly, like his own children!
And thank you!
It's even more ironic when you consider that after Slavery was abolished there was a lot of resentment towards the newly freed men and there was a high number lynchings afterwards.
So much for loving those "children" as they were called.
GREAT WORK
and quite informative
two systems can not co exist if both sides seek power
Thank you!
Hello. What would you recommend as good books about the American civil war?
I couldn't recommend any books about the Civil War in particular, but I can suggest the American YAWP (an online textbook) as a good place to learn the fundamentals of American history - I believe it has a chapter dedicated to the Civil War.
Great video Soma. Will say every country minus a few had a civil war or the most civil or party disputes for those you didn't have a military civil war. It's enviable truly. There are Religious. Race. Rural vs City. Farmers vs Industrialist. And countless other factors. So your right it's Enviable
thanks for helping me "not-cheat" on my History final lmao
Anytime, I love helping people not-cheat B)
I think it might have been possible to avoid the civil war, if there had been some sort of guarantees for the preserveral of the slave states "rights" to keep slaves and maybe further weigh the electoral power balance. However, that would create other issues like the continuation of slavery and possible further power difference that could escalate into an even bloodier civil war yet it would maybe have resulted in the mostly bloody conflict of American history to not happen. I also like that you are actually mentioning how many of the arguments against slavery was based upon various interpretations of the bible, (I am not a christian,but i find it extremely anachronistic how some people disregard religious arguments and their impacts). You a also mention the counter view based also upon Christianity. All in all you handled this matter factually and did not reduce it into moralistic rage fest on either side. Thumbs up!
Thank you!
The Centrum program of the Republican party was this with Lincoln, who personaly dod not like the slavery system but he and the centrum program said in those state where it was slavery system earlier it could remain! The centrum program was slavery system was prohibited to export to the new states in the Western territories to preserv for free farmers (as Kansas). But any politician who looked at the USA population change it could see Delaware had 1.5% slaves in 1860 so Delaware was from 10 years to be free state. Missouri had below 10% slaves (9.7%) so it was 20 years to be free and Maryland had 12.7% slaves so it was to 25 years to be free state. Kentucky exported 70 000 slaves to the Deep South and Texas so the slave population became below 20% (19.5%) in 1860.
However the Southern POLITICIANS want to dictate to the MAJORITY North to weaken the industrialization with low tax. Deep South wanted to change cheap European industrial goods with cotton and they were not interested in an industrialized World Power future.
The South did huge stupid steps:
1. Kansas Nebraska act.
2. Dred Scott verdict.
These destroied the 1850 compromis totally and assisted to build a new territorial party as the Republican and set some extremists as John Brown on their way.
After John Brown the South got the TOTAL PARANOIA to show Lincoln = John Brown and the Civil War got green lamps.
Interesting below 20% slave population the Southern PARANOIA was smaller so Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland could remain in the Union to give more white soldiers to the Union, moreover the 4.7% slave populated West Virginia became new state in 1863.
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Haha, thanks!