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Everyone is taught the basics of history in school. If you made it past the fifth grade you know about the long ago battles of the American Civil War. You may have heard that the battles were fought over slavery and the war brought an end to that despicable practice. However, you have not heard the whole story. Edited down and made acceptable, the history most children are taught is incomplete. It does not address the real issues important in either that time or today. The Confederacy fought because of its trust in the foundations of the United States and its conviction that the federal government twisted those foundations to take away the rights of the states and their people.
Although slavery was an issue of the time, it was not the only issue that drove the secession or the fight afterwards. The beginning of the War Between the States started long before guns were blazing. Even during the revolutionary war, the northern states and the southern states had many arguments as to how bound they were to each other, how much one's needs affected the other. All saw then that without a strong reason to stay together the union they had forged would fall apart. The question of how to bind thirteen sovereign states was a delicate balance they maintained between fear of strong central power, and need of unity. In the end, a constitution was forged, voted and signed between them. Before understanding why this compact ended it must be understood how it could be allowed to.
Each state within the union saw itself as free, sovereign and independent. Moreover, they had good reason to. The treaty with Great Britain at the end of the war names each state as free and more importantly sovereign. "His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign...
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