Britt salvages -

 Free- soliers = are for themselves, don’t want slaves in the territories because they wan the jobs for themselves

·        It isn’t a moral issue, it is a jobs issue

·        Lincoln – is a free soiler, looking out for his peers

Charles - “It’s all about the money”

·        The North had 70%  of the population, but only 30 % of the revenue

JDub – much of the wealth was coming out of the south

Ari -Slavery is helping the South get revenue; Slaves will take the jobs in the West away from whites

As long as slavery is fee then no white person is going to take that job

Trevor – Lincoln wasn’t looking out for what was best for the working class, but for the country as a whole

Britt (again) – (9:58 Liv arrives) Lincoln is also not looking out for the slaves, not looking out for the wealthy, plantation owners

Trevor – “… to save the Union” he doesn’t look at slaves as people

Ethan – Lincoln is saying this in 1858 (Lincoln/Douglass debates) when Lincoln was running for senator from Illinois.  

What is motivating these people to say and do what they say and do?

Michael – States can choose to stop rebelling against the union if the southern states discontinue rebellion then they can keep their slaves.

Ethan – If you want to keep your slaves, then join the union

Laura – Lincoln wasn’t “in charge” of the confederacy therefore his remarks do not affect the southern states

Lincoln - You better come back to the union or else

Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln’s goal was to maintain the Union. Lincoln never considers the south a separate country even though they (the south) had their own president… Lincoln referred to the south as “states in rebellion” .

When we say the “Union” we mean the “North” – Lincoln never just meant the North.

Michael – By making it a war about slavery, and not just a “civil war”

If it wasn’t about slavery THEN WHAT WAS IT ABOUT? What were we fighting for?

From the documents – you need to decipher, what were the causes of the Civil War

That the one thing which is "wholly and eternally wrong" is the effort of so-called statesmen to inject one-sided and jaundiced sentiments into the youth of the country in either section. Such sentiments are neither consistent with the truth of history, nor conducive to the future welfare and unity of the Republic. The assumption on either side of all the righteousness and all the truth would produce a belittling arrogance, and an offensive intolerance of the opposing section; or, if either section could be persuaded that it was "wholly and eternally wrong," it would inevitably destroy the self-respect and manhood of its people.
John B. Gordon, Maj. Gen. CSA

 Ethan - BUT, this is what IS happening?

Well, who taught you this? Northern teachers, trained in Northern Universities, who now teach in Northern schools

States rights – why doesn’t the federal government just tell the states what to do?

AND who freed the slaves? - The Thirteenth Amendment (Yea Michael!)