Whats ridicules is your reading comprehension. Please point out where I said "Jim Crow had nothing to do with states rights." :2wave:
Then why point out that Jim Crow laws came "after" the civil war? Or was it just adding information to my post?
I never said it was unrelated? Are you actually reading what I posted or just chanting some mantra?
This is false :
Lynchings again started AFTER the civil war and again had nothing to do with it.
If they had nothing to do with each other then by definition they are not related. And of course they did. The same way bombings by the ALF are related to radical far left groups like PETA and PETA is related to far leftist environmentalist mentality. That is the same way that KKK lynchings are related to pro-segregationist mentality which in turn is related to Civil War which is in turn related to the Civil War and Southern secessionist movements.
Top Five Causes of the Civil War:
1. Economic and social differences between the North and the South.
2. States versus federal rights.
3. The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents.
4. Growth of the Abolition Movement.
5. The election of Abraham Lincoln. -
What were the main reasons for the start of the civil war? - Yahoo! Answers
Seriously. Yahoo Answers is your source for this? Here I'll let the states Mississippi, Texas & South Carolina do the talking :
Avalon Project - Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union said:
We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.
Avalon Project - Confederate States of America - A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union
Confederate States of America - A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union said:
Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?
Avalon Project - Confederate States of America - Mississippi Secession
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
Any speak of 'economic' differences between the South and North are secondary in nature and smoke screens for whatever 'economic' problem you pro-Confederacy types have concocted. The states that issued secession statements
all put slavery at the
forefront of their grievances. They did not put the production of cotton production but the workforce(slaves) they employed as the reason they went to war.
Hmmm... looks like your revisionist history class has failed you yet again.
In your opinion...
Top Five Causes of the Civil War
Not my opinion. And
Yale isn't in the business of revisionist history. Please try using primary sources from now on? Instead of going by what
about.com tells you. But if you must repeat the same source 4 or 5 times Here I'll give you some more information on this matter because you seem to be lacking key information :
Do you know who Alexander H. Stephen was? Probably do. But in case you don't :
[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stephens]Alexander Stephens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He also served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia (both before the Civil War and after Reconstruction) and as Governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883.
Anyways he gave a speech on March 21st 1861 where he stated the Confederacy's immediate reason:
Cornerstone Speech by Alexander H. Stephens
Cornerstone Speech Alexander H. Stephens March 21 said:
'The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew." Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition.
Ah yes. Civilwarhome.com - a notoriously pro-Confederate website. Here I'll explain to you why 'States' rights' is Dixiecrat-Republican-Southern speak for protection of their 'right' to own slaves. States' rights is not a concept, it is not a concrete idea, it is not even an ideology.
It is a justification, and this justification has been used for two main reasons :
1.
Protect slavery as an institution in multiple states.
2.
Create legislation creating a barrier between the privileges each
The first of these reasons I've already provided plenty of first hand evidence supporting it(see above), the second is verified by :
The History of Jim Crow
Miscegenation statutes, intended to prevent racial interbreeding, led the list of Jim Crow laws enacted. At least 127 laws prohibiting interracial marriage and cohabitation were passed between 1865 and the 1950s nationwide, with 37 percent of the statutes passed outside the South. Western states enacted 33 such laws (27 percent). Both whites and blacks who ignored the law could receive sentences for up to ten years hard labor in the penitentiary in a number of states. Punishment for miscegenation in state statutes was still in force in the 1960s in Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, and North Carolina.
But I'm sure
about.com and Yahoo! Answers are right and Yale...
isn't?...
Before you make accusations of revisionism, please understand that these are
primary sources from the people who were actually there. Not what people on user powered websites say.
