Which is what i think. Slavery was hugely important issue (it's just that it wasn't the trigger of secession)
Yeah, the election of someone not willing to give in to any and all Southerner demands on the subject was.
Yeah, the pro-slavery slave states decided that the North was one monolithic abolitionist body from Hell.You mean the fact that north-west was anti-tariff? Yep, and up until the Republican coalition they were not going to support it. But then things changed.
It was, however, what the South saw as their agenda.It was uniting issue of the south. Not only all whites could feel special by having black slaves to compare to, but they sort of benefited by that indirectly (even if not nearly to the extent the rich did). Anyway, plenty of people here say that slavery wasn't Lincoln nor republicans agenda in 1860.
Where is the South paying a nickel for land out west being granted to those dumb enough to believe the "the Great American Desert" is a hoax? (exaggerated statement is exaggerated, but...)Homesteading. That's how the north-west mentioned before was bought, the north got tariff out of it, benefit in itself, and the south was supposed to pay for the plan.
And for that matter, why is the only mention of the GAD in regards to how the South isn't allowed to use force and fraud to turn it all into slavery states?