Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
Slavery did play a major part in tensions betwixt north and south and you can read how it had been swept under the rug up until the Lincoln administration but there was more to the war than just the slavery issue. Some of the founding fathers wanted to address slavery in the declaration of independence but the majority felt the nation was not ready for it. Had the issue of slavery been handled by the founding fathers and saying this I mean had they banned it, would the civil war have taken place, who knows.
Well heavy taxation on the South and 0, I mean 0 Federal spending on the South isolated that part of the country regardless of slavery. It was agrarian society vs industrial society plain and simple and only 1 kind of economy was going to win the day as top dog.