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▶ 28:31
I'll get into this a little bit more, but one of the main reasons the North won the Civil War was for economic reasons. We're going to get into this more, but Upham was a big part of that. There's estimates that by the end of the war, this …
▶ 35:28
Called the Jayhawkers. This is a free state militia in Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. I think it was 1854. The battle was whether there was going to be slavery in Kansas. There was all kinds of civilian militias battling. It was c…
▶ 44:28
The European banks had every incentive for the North and South to split so they could probably exploit the colonies again. They didn't want a strong America, so they wanted to charge Lincoln 30 to 35 percent interest. No way was Lincoln goi…
▶ 44:56
If anything, both Britain and France supported the South. A lot of people don't know that the cotton that was raised in the South was bought significantly by the Britons. They would ship that cotton to India to make cloth that was then made…
▶ 45:26
Because keep in mind, at this time, India is under the control of Britain. And so they had a whole market based on very cheap southern cotton. So there was no impetus for Britain, in addition to the instability of America, which they embrac…
▶ 45:53
Britain specifically, but France as well, because France had an interest because a lot of people don't know this part either. The slave trade from French colonies in Africa specializing in the production of rice. I just found this out like …
▶ 46:42
from French colonies and the marketing of that rice into Europe. And so they had every incentive not to help the North and a lot of incentives to help the South. Yeah. And that's one of the problems with the protective tariffs. The North wa…
▶ 47:13
Also a punitive export tariff. So it made the cost of Southern goods go up. That's why the South resisted the tariff of abominations for 30 years. Remember the South used nullification when the, every time the North would try to impose thes…