The civil war was a landgrab. They used a moral cause to push war.

There were already black Senators and congressman in 1865.

Slavery was not the issue.

Property rights, the taking of farmland to grow opium.



The Asians in the south pushed the issue and so did certain factions of European settlers who fled the us to South America.

They eventually started over again in Germany as Nazis.

Everyone knows WW1 WWll all about drug running.