Nominal - 2017-05-03
Hey, why DID the Civil War happen?
I blame everyone for never asking this question before.
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Old_Zircon - 2017-05-03 Well, that and the economic impact the North felt when their access to cotton (because New England was a big player in the slave trade, both on the getting slaves side and on the buying slave-produced materials for the mills that were the heart of the industrial revolution) was interrupted.
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Bort - 2017-05-03 North and South were trying to negotiate terms, South got pissy and fired on Union troops who were trying to avoid a conflict. If it were all about the corporate whores a-whorin', I don't think war would have been the preferred resolution.
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gravelstudios - 2017-05-03 The civil war happened for the same reason every other war happened. deep down inside we're all just a bunch of violent monkeys.
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Old_Zircon - 2017-05-05 Bort, the war was extremely profitable for the handful of corporations that actually existed in the US at the time. It usually is.
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Two Jar Slave - 2017-05-04
I don't believe for a second that Donald Trump isn't a drinker.
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