In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

I made a presentation on the cause of our Civil War. Many tell me that the cause was slavery. Slavery was the major issue, but the cause of the war was the failure for the two sides to ...

The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage. The South thought new states should be free to allow ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.