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American History

raccoon

(31,788 posts) Sat Jun 6, 2020, 01:50 PM Jun 2020

Before the Civil War, why did wealthy powerful Northerners [View all]

—bankers, merchants, and so on, care if new states admitted to the Union, such as California—were slave states or free states? I can’t imagine most of them would care one way or the other.

Also why would they care if the Confederate states continued as a separate country?

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Before the Civil War, why did wealthy powerful Northerners [View all] raccoon Jun 2020 OP

I suspect California had not really gotten over agingdem Jun 2020 #1

Economics zipplewrath Jun 2020 #2

Cotton was the basis for almost all the US economy cyclonefence Jun 2020 #3

Excellent thank you for summary MaryMagdaline Jun 2020 #6

Some Points, Sir The Magistrate Jun 2020 #4

Because many of them owned plantations, farms, timber etc in the South dixiegrrrrl Jun 2020 #5

I remember the Ken Burns documentary BigmanPigman Jun 2020 #7

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