Statements Related to The cause of the US civil war was southern opposition to economic protectionism

• 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)
• Iran cripples its internet to stymie political opposition (3+/1- justifications)
• The President of the US is not liable for civil damages resulting from any official action while in office (1+/0- justifications)
• Economic rent is defined as "the payment to a factor of production in excess of what is required to keep that factor in its present use" (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)
• The world has come close to nuclear war (2+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was abolition of slavery (7+/1- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was states' rights (0+/2- justifications)
• The last major disagreement about economic protectionism in the US was the South Carolina nullification crisis in 1833 (1+/0- 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)
• China's large US dollar holdings put the US at an economic advantage compared to China (1+/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)
• 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)
• Germany's economic success since the 2008 financial crisis is due to the country's having used Keynesian spending to counteract the depression (1+/0- justifications)
• Barack Obama has increased the national debt by $2.7T in 1.5 years in order to recover from the worst economic crisis since the great depression (3+/0- 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)
• Systemic aid to countries impedes their economic development (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)