What we're looking at when we get into the issues That really leads up to it? - Well, I think Until we get into 1860 or shortly thereafter, or actually, 1860. Is there from the moment that the country isįounded, and then we get into the 1800s, which Exactly, so they wanna protect their interests. He called the issue of having slavery "like holding a wolf by the ears." You can't hold onto it,īut you can't let it go because so many of the wealthy elites who were going to end up in Congress in the South are slaveowners- Including himself. So they said, "Let's just become a country and do it." - You know, even Thomas Jefferson, the author of theĭeclaration of Independence, he knew that slavery was a contradiction. Or maybe they hoped that it would be a (laughs) Knew that at some point this would be irreconcilable, North who weren't fans of slavery, and people The founding of the country, this was already an issue. Have these other states that come in later, The original 13 colonies, you can see which ones were free states and which ones were slave states, and then you obviously This is actually closer to the Civil War, but if we even look at To try to figure out how to balance those for States and slave states, and they're gonna continue Including those states and kind of giving them what they wanted in retaining slavery,īut it means that the US is born with both free The states in the South have slavery, where people are clearly not created equal, so they couldn't win the Revolutionary War without We're this country whereĪll men are created equal, except that most of I think there's sort ofĪn essential contradiction in the United States as it's born. Seeds of the Civil War were really with the United That happened overnight? - Oh, defnitely not. Led to the Civil War? Was it just something In school, you learn about the Civil War, you learn about slavery, that slavery was a cause of the Civil War,īut at least for myself, I never got a full context of what were all the dynamics that History Content Fellow, and what I'm curious about is. Here, and I'm with Kim Kutz, who is Khan Academy's American
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