Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32250026-20180109043630/@comment-32250026-20180110035923

One Lincoln while wanting to avoid war didn't want states to leave so if foreign powers reconinized the csa then war might happen. Second different president would avoid the war. Your joking. While yes Lincoln was the final straw that lead to the south leaving it almost happened many times before and before the civil war tensions were high. Back during the revolutionary war when making the constitution a big issue was slaves and how they would count to states votes. This led to northern states not wanting them to count since the south would hold the power so the 1/3 or 2/3 compromise was made allowing for wither 1/3 or 2/3 of slaves to count. Now I don't remember when or why but Carolina almost left the union years before the Civil war. However the 2 closets times that civil war might happen was bloody Kansas and when a anti slavery man, don't remember the name, tried to arm slaves to rise up. But before the civil war they felt that the industrial north was threatening there farming life style. With more and more abolintionists gaining support the small amount of slave states felt that they north would gain all the power. This would cause the north to more control the southern affairs. If anything Lincoln was just a excuse to finally leave the union instead of waiting for something else to happen.