The Second Civil War of the US

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Let me guess, the Southern States were the real patriots?[/quote
Oh the racist card played again.

The South was invaded by force . They defended states rights. Lincoln was not an abolitionist. Read his quotes about race/slavery. They are seldom included in history books. I wonder why?

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That is a very patent and superficial analysis. And totally inaccurate.

Interesting, Robert E. Lee freed his laves in 1862. General Grant had slaves as well.

There were many freed Negroes in the South long before the "Civil War". Jefferson Davis said "We fight not for slavery, but for independence". That was written in 1864 in his personal letters. Meanwhile," honest Able" use the Emancipation Propaganda Proclamation, (which only freed slaves in the Northern states, btw), to conscript Negroes against their will to fight in the Union army. A strategic plan to gain military power and opposition. The North was responsible for the raping, pillaging, and burning that went on in many parts of the South, and Southern women left unprotected, were at the mercy of Federal terrorists.

What difference does it make which name that you call it?

Because a "Civil War" implies a war which is fought over control of the same government. Since the seceding states wanted to form their own government and their own country, it was not a Civil War. Also, in that time period, each state was viewed more as its own country, rather belonging to a tight nit collective, or central government. We still debate this issue today.

I know where you got all this false info. Using the same phrases gave you away.
http://www.snopes.com/confederate-histo ... ownership/
It is indeed the racist Lost Cause story.

1 - The south seceded by force, seizing government property (Fort Sumter).
2 - The declarations of war of the various Confederate states made it clear they were fighting for slavery.
3 - Sure, Lincoln wasn't an abolitionist; he was a free soiler. That is, he wanted to encircle the south in with free states, so slave states couldn't expand geographically, which was necessary, as cotton plantations wasted the soil's nutrients, for their survival and the survival of slavery.
4 - Sure, Lincoln shared racial prejudice of his day. But the fact is, he learned and grew in regard to racial tolerance, so that by the last speech he gave, he made it clear he would not only emancipate all slaves, but grant them full citizenship and voting rights. John Wilkes Boothe, who was in the audience, made sure that was Lincoln's last speech.
5 - Sure, the war was hard on southerners. But if they wanted to blame anyone, they should have blamed their own leaders, and the plantation elite they belonged to, for starting the war. And as hard as it might have been, at least Sherman went out of his way to destroy the south's means of making war on their home front. That is, he mostly destroyed property rather than randomly killing people. Contrast that to the Confederacy, which had violently put down pro-Union factions and communities within their borders, resulting in the deaths of combatants and noncombatants alike. When Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania, upon discovering free blacks living there, had them chained, then sold in within the Confederacy. You have to wonder, how many of these blacks were driven to such despair that they had taken their own lives, or just wasted away?

Did we allow the British to keep their forts when we seceded. Did the soviets get to keep all their bases in eastern Germany?

Fort Sumter was the spark the north wanted, so it seemed like they didn't start the war. But no nation would have allowed its former power to keep forts inside their nation, wave their flag, continue to bring more troops,etc. all federal forts in the south should have been abandoned, that's how it's done now. The south left legally, the north needed s reason for war that didn't make us the aggressors, we always find ways to start wars by getting other nations to attack us.

Most people in the south didn't own slaves they weren't fighting for slavery. Slave owners might have been but then they were rich and sent others to fight in their stay.
The north was just as guilty. If they. We're really anti slavely they wouldn't have profited off slave labor via cheap cotton to make goods to sell to Europe. Neither side was good or clean. History isn't black and white. It's murky and dirty

Yes, most southerners didn't own slaves, but they still believed in slavery and white supremacy. The plantation owning elites kept poor whites from rising up against them by getting them to conform to the Antebellum south's rigid class system with just one concept: poor whites might have been treated like dirt by the rich plantation owners, but at least they were still one rung above black slaves. That was the exact same way wealthy southern elites were able to play poor whites - who they regarded as trash - against blacks after emancipation during Jim Crow, telling them that they were at least better than blacks. As Lyndon Johnson had observed: "Tell a poor white man that he's better than a black man, and you can pick his pocket. He'll even hold his pocket open for you." It's no surprise that until recently, organized labor, or any social justice groups, were virtually nonexistent in the south, so complacent were poor southern whites in accepting their social inequality. Now, there were definitely exceptions to the rule, such as with the Anti-Confederate guerrilla leader, Newton Knight (the subject of the movie, Free State Of Jones), who had led a small army composed of confederate deserters and escaped slaves in a non-stop war against the Confederacy, did his part during Radical Reconstruction, and even married a former slave, raising mixed race children with her when it was illegal in Mississippi to do so.
Yes, there was plenty of racism in the north at the time, but at least the north had produced anti-slavery movements, which was virtually unheard of in the south. And it was this anti-slavery movement in the north that ultimately had accomplished turning the war to save the Union into a war of liberation.
Yes, the British had lost their government property in America - but only after they had been defeated by the Continental Army. The south had never gotten around to gaining independence from America, and hence, their claims to Sumter were illegal.
Yes, America had gotten rich off of the cotton trade with Europe, but that business had been initiated by the plantation owners themselves.
Yes, neither side was pure of heart, but I think it's a fair assessment to say that the Confederacy, which its leaders had made clear was based on slavery and white supremacy, comes off looking a lot worse.

The white supremacy account rarely seems to take into account how greatly hated the Irish were in America in the 19th century. Some say even more so than blacks. Them being white, christian and english speaking didn't make one bit of difference.

Then why did both sides of the Chinese Civil War have separate governments?

It's not that uncommon to call the Civil War "the War Between the States."

1.Ft Sumter belongedto South Carolina
2.Lincoln sent 75,000 troops to invade South Carolina and coerce the South to fire the first shot, so he could get his war.
3.Lincoln also violated the Constitution by declaring war in the absence of congress
4..Only 5 of the declared 11 states said it was for slavery (and other things)
5.Lincoln's ECP was for slaves within the United States. He used this to round up Negro troops (some against their will)to fight for the Union, ensuring a victory with more man power
6..Lincoln was very a bit a white supremacist/white nationalist. In fact, his first move after the War was to send the blacks back to Africa. It was Frederick Douglas that kept pushing for abolition and rights. Lincoln didn't want these things for the blacks. He never really changed position, he just changed tactics.

So?

None of this changes the fact the south commited treason and sedition by seceding, and that they did so to preserve slavery.

He also has the Emancipation Proclamation backwards. It freed the slaves in the states in revolt, and in those parishes of Louisiana that were in revolt.

Abolitionists criticized it, saying that Lincoln freed the slaves whom he did not have the power to free, but kept enslaved those whom he had the power to free.

I think Naturalplastic gave a succinct answer.
Your take on the facts is very one sided, if not wrong. So what if it was just eleven states that sited slavery as a reason for secession? That's still a huge percentage of the rebelling states. And even in those deferring Confederate states, I'm willing to bet most of the white population supporting the Confederacy were fighting for slavery and white supremacy.
As for rounding up troops unwilling to fight, it was the south that was the first to institute a draft, forcing poor white men to fight, many of whom realized this was a war started by the wealthy elites, but fought by poormen. That was initially the reason why Newton Knight turned against the Confederate cause, before he developed a truly humane conscience that embraced both poor whites and blacks. Besides, it was the south that had a manpower issue, not the north, which negates your argument for black enlistment.
I already conceded that Lincoln shared many of the prejudices of his day. But to say that he did not grow as a human being in regard to race relations is extremely one sided. Why is it that you're so down on Lincoln, but give the Confederates a free pass? It must be noted that Lee and Jefferson Davis had instituted the policy of executing all black soldiers wearing Union uniforms. When the matter of prisoner exchanges came up, Lincoln made it clear that this abhorrent policy had to end, Lee and Davis refused to relent.
The fact of the matter was, even if the southern cause had had a moral leg to stand on, slavery would have remained legal within their borders. A northern victory vanquished slavery, and thus the right side won.
By the way, in my part of the country, the Pacific Northwest, we have an abysmal history of the way Native Americans were forced into reservations (which might as well have been concentration camps) after subjecting them to genocidal war. Asians, most often Chinese, were brought in for their labor, only to face violence and racial hatred, before being told they couldn't stay in America. But absolutely no one in my part of the country, who I know of, tries defending any of this.