Based on Karl Marx's analysis of the causes of the U. S. Civil War in his article of 20 October 1861, What proof does Marx offer for his claim that the true goal of the Confederacy was the maintenance of a system of slavery, rather than the British press' claim that the Civil War was about the Southerner's desire for independence from Northern domination?

Karl Max as a literary writer of the Tribune Newspaper based in England has always viewed the war as a Southern aggression through which they tried to preserve the political dominance rather than desire for independence from Northern domination.

This is because, before the election of Lincoln, all previous elected president were slave owners or pro-slavery. And the slave-owners dominated the Congress and Supreme Court as well. When the Northern States started to dorminate in the congress as a result of the influx of people from Europe, the Southern states became jittery.

This is because they believed that, since slave was abolished in Northern States, it is a matter of time when the higher number of Northern congress menber would sue for abolishment of slave trade and slavery as whole.

Explanation:

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.

"the gulf of tonkin resolution in 1967".

the gulf of tonkin resolution (officially called southeast asia resolution, public law 88-408) is a law issued by the congress of the united states of america on august 7, 1964, in which president lyndon b. johnson was authorized1 to act in a comprehensive manner against the democratic republic of vietnam, which he accused of aggressions against us ships in the gulf of tonkin, where the resolution takes its name. the gulf of tonkin resolution is of historical importance because it gave authorization to the us president. lyndon b. johnson, without a formal declaration of war by congress, to use military force in southeast asia.