The Gettysburg Address Animated. Getting the Civil War Right. Printer-friendly version William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead.
It’s not even past.” He would not be surprised to learn that Americans, 150 years after the Civil War began, are still getting it wrong. During the last five years, I’ve asked several thousand teachers for the main reason the South seceded. They always come up with four alternatives: states’ rights, slavery, tariffs and taxes or the election of Lincoln. 3D American Civil War on Google Earth. 3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology. The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady. Background Many historians call the Civil War the central event in U.S. history.
The formation of the Constitution corrected the autonomy of individual states that the Articles of Confederation did not harness.