Statements Related to The cause of the US civil war was abolition of slavery

• Senator Franken submitted an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that forbids defense contractors from forcing employees to arbitrate claims arising out of a civil rights violation or any tort related to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, or retention (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq (1+/0- justifications)
• US involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is now as large as the Vietnam war (1+/0- justifications)
• Gun control laws were used to control black americans after abolition (1+/0- justifications)
• The President of the US is not liable for civil damages resulting from any official action while in office (1+/0- justifications)
• Ron Paul thinks the US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/0- justifications)
• The US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/3- justifications)
• The US Civil War was not fought to end slavery (3+/2- justifications)
• The US Civil War was fought to return the seceded confederate territory to the Union (0+/0- justifications)
• Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• The world has come close to nuclear war (2+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was states' rights (0+/2- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was southern opposition to economic protectionism (0+/1- justifications)
• Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause (1+/0- justifications)
• Texas declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Georgia declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Mississippi declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The South Carolina declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The slave-holding states explicitly and solely relied upon their fear of the abolition of slavery as justification for their secession (6+/0- justifications)
• Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war (1+/0- justifications)
• Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was not economic (1+/0- justifications)
• If the cause of the civil war had only been about economics, whites would not have had a reason to continue racism through Jim Crow laws (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights (1+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the civil war was a disagreement about only one state right, the right to hold people as property as slaves (0+/0- justifications)
• In June 2010 the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam war as the longest war in U.S. history (1+/0- justifications)
• A black child who was born during slavery was more likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during the twenty-first century (2+/1- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to secretly target minorities (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to target minorities, despite the fact that whites are more likely than blacks to commit drug crimes (3+/0- justifications)
• The civil war was not about tariffs (1+/0- justifications)
• The Soviet declaration of war on Japan caused Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• The atomic bomb did not cause Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was a Pink person's political response to race riots (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" began the explosion of the U.S. prison population (1+/0- justifications)