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<blockquote data-quote="john250" data-source="post: 921042" data-attributes="member: 4406"><p>I have a view. Lincoln knew how much the north, west of the Appalachians, needed the Mississippi River. Railroads were new technology, unproven. Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, etc. had no market for their goods if they couldn't get those goods to New Orleans. Lincoln had floated a load of goods to NOLA as a young man. Like today, the Midwest produced more than it had people to consume, and the Appalachians were a huge barrier to the consumers in the east. Imagine a CSA levying a tariff on every barge going down that river. Economic disaster for the Union States. </p><p>Now, r.e. slavery. A war needs an emotional trigger. The battleship Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor. There were plenty of abolitionists in the North. Nowhere near a majority, but enough to dominate the media and keep the issue always in the public eye. So in that sense you can say slavery triggered the war. </p><p>The reconstruction period was shameful, there is no way around that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="john250, post: 921042, member: 4406"] I have a view. Lincoln knew how much the north, west of the Appalachians, needed the Mississippi River. Railroads were new technology, unproven. Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, etc. had no market for their goods if they couldn't get those goods to New Orleans. Lincoln had floated a load of goods to NOLA as a young man. Like today, the Midwest produced more than it had people to consume, and the Appalachians were a huge barrier to the consumers in the east. Imagine a CSA levying a tariff on every barge going down that river. Economic disaster for the Union States. Now, r.e. slavery. A war needs an emotional trigger. The battleship Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor. There were plenty of abolitionists in the North. Nowhere near a majority, but enough to dominate the media and keep the issue always in the public eye. So in that sense you can say slavery triggered the war. The reconstruction period was shameful, there is no way around that. [/QUOTE]
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