There are apologists who claim the causes of the Civil War were varied. They talk about taxes, about state's rights, about independence, about the US Constution. They're incorrect. Taxes and tarriffs and laws passed in the 1840s and 1850s were all compromises between slave and non-slave states, desperate attempts to keep the US from splitting down the middle. As the years passed, the South became more intransigent, started more and bloodier conflicts in its attempts to spread slavery. The South
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