There’s a great biography called ) of Andrew Jackson that paints a perfect timeline that lead to the Civil War, I was shocked to read that the War almost occurred during Jackson’s presidency but he was able to post pone in for another 40 years.
The short of it is that America was levying a 90-% tax on southern cotton. That is what triggered the war. Had nothing to do with slavery as most cotton farms were family farms and not run by slaves
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