HistoryMemes

Edited because CTL-Return b.s. submitted my comment early. Twice. Also, censors lemmy? Really now. That's a quote, not my slur.

History buff here, not even scratching the surface:

1. 1820, Misouri Compromise. Drew a line across the USA where North was slave free, South was a slave state.
2. 1854, Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the compromise. Allowing new states to choose whether they were a slave state or not.
3. 1860, Abraham Lincoln elected. Maybe 39% voted for him in a 4-way race. Northern "liberal" man, "not my president" nonsense ensues. Literally the first Republican* president.
4. 2 months later, Ordinance of Succession, marking the unofficial start of the civil war over "property" and 'not my president, "anti-slavery party"'.

The Ordinance of Succession was likely enacted over fears that new states would cause slavery to die out.

"For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic."

* 1963-1969 President B. Lyndon Johnson, a democrat from Texas is attributed the unproven quote, "I'll have those N-ers voting Democratic for 200 years." Following which, there was a culture shift between Democrats and Republicans.

Well done timeline for those interested: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/day-civil-war