The civil war was prior to the industrial revolution and fought because of tax revenue. We were an agrarian nation totally dependent upon tax revenue from cotton and tobacco. If the South had been allowed to leave, the Northern states and the burgeoning political class in D.C would have been wiped out and defenseless in a matter of a few years.
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The civil war was prior to the industrial revolution and fought because of tax revenue. We were an agrarian nation totally dependent upon tax revenue from cotton and tobacco. If the South had been allowed to leave, the Northern states and the burgeoning political class in D.C would have been wiped out and defenseless in a matter of a few years.
Fact.