OP: one of the main contributing factors You: was caused by See the difference? I don't know that part of history, but I know it would be much more fun to re

OP: one of the main contributing factors You: was caused by See the difference? I don't know that part of history, but I know it would be much more fun to read this discussion and learn from you guys if there wasn't a moving of goal posts. Also, I'd like to actually see your counter argument, and not just a statement that OP is wrong without anything else. Preferably against the point OP actually made. I found Wikipedia has this to say, but I don't know how to interpret it in the context of your argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857#Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857#Results Excerpt from "Results": > By the end of the Panic, in 1859, tensions between the North and South regarding the issue of slavery in the United States were increasing. But it does not say that this was a direct result of the panic. > The Panic of 1857 encouraged those in the South who believed the North needed the South to keep a stabilized economy, and southern threats of secession were temporarily quelled. Southerners believed that the Panic of 1857 made the North "more amenable to southern demands" and would help to keep slavery alive in the United States. Sounds inconclusive to me, in the context of evaluating OPs argument. So I still don't know who is more or less right...