It is instructive and inspiring to contemplate alternatives to fighting the Civil War, but the character of southern conservatism prevented any of those other choices from being made. ... With the benefit of hindsight, we are forced to conclude that almost any alternative to the Civil War would have been preferable.
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IMO, No. You must remember that there were many underlying issues confronting America in the 1850s and into the 1860s. The north was industrializing itself. The south felt it could not compete against it's northern counterparts due to thi...
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Civil war has been averted in Iraq and Iranian intervention there has "ceased to exist," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday. ... • Iraqi Prime Minister Says That Civil War Has Been Prevented...
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Hypoetheticals like this are always tricky. It also depends on "avoided" after WHAT POINT? I don't think it too reasonable to find too much chance of war being avoided once SECESSION had taken place, or for that matter after ma...
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We know it was not over Slavery Lincoln reapeatedly offered to allow anyone back in the Union WITH THEIR SLAVES and a promise they could keep them! No one took him up on the offer. It was inevitable. The 1810, 1830 and 1850 census showed th...
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The only way I see that it could have been prevented would have been the election of a President in favor of states' rights. The civil war wasn't about slavery. Sure, that was an issue. The big issue, however, has over the power of the fede...
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The Civil War was an unavoidable event that altered the course of history. The origins of the war are found in the issue of slavery and the moral and political questions this issue raised. ... More Essays on Could the Civil War Have Been Avoided?
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The Civil War could, and probably should, have been avoided, according to a new book authored by four Southern historians. ... In the recently published "This Terrible War: the Civil War and its Aftermath," the authors weighed the war's brutality against its benefits. They came to the conclusion that the bloodshed was...
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Although Lincoln was obviously not the only cause of the Civil War, he was probably more responsible for the nature of the war than any other individual. The purpose of this essay is to examine briefly how President Lincoln handled this cri...
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Andrew Jackson after the Nullification Crisis predicted that South Carolina would secede over the slavery issue. Tariff Merely the Pretext Andrew Jackson Reverend A. J. Crawford Washington, May 1, 1833. I have had a laborious task here, but...
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