How can you stop the US Civil War?

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If the Civil War is caused by slavery, is it possible to prevent the US Civil War from occuring if you agree not to ban slavery (by doing whatever you can to stop the Republicans and the Free-Soils from coming into office)? Or will you just have the Northern states seecede from the Union, angry that slavery still exist?

EDIT: Oh gah. I remember about other tensions between the South and the North over tariffs. Should the US have low tarrifs too in order to prevent a Southern secession?

 

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Its possible the war doesn't happen.

That has happened to me a few times as the USA, but there is no good benifit from it, you end up with useless slave pops all game, and miss out on the huge rep you get from winning the war as the Union.

The key to avoiding the war is not just taking all the pro slavery decisions, but also the party in power.

 

[DeathFromBelow]

If the Civil War is caused by slavery, is it possible to prevent the US Civil War from occuring if you agree not to ban slavery (by doing whatever you can to stop the Republicans and the Free-Soils from coming into office)? Or will you just have the Northern states seecede from the Union, angry that slavery still exist?

EDIT: Oh gah. I remember about other tensions between the South and the North over tariffs. Should the US have low tarrifs too in order to prevent a Southern secession?

It was almost entirely about slavery, at least to the southern aristocracy who chose to start the war.

I think VIP models it pretty well. You can end up with an early civil war or avoid it altogether based on the number of slave/free states and your responses to the compromise events. There's a peaceful emancipation event that fires in the 1870's-1880's if you avoid the war.

 

[Onni_Manni]

Doesn't New England secede in Vanilla too, if you take the Pro-Slavery choices in the events?

 

[Ex Mudder]

I have the american party in power in my most recent game, and no ACW has fired. I'm not sure how to get the republicans in power, they only have 30 odd percent of the electorate and my liberals are becoming anarcho-liberals.

 

[DeathFromBelow]

I have the american party in power in my most recent game, and no ACW has fired. I'm not sure how to get the republicans in power, they only have 30 odd percent of the electorate and my liberals are becoming anarcho-liberals.

What are your voting rights set to? Universal sufferage seems to most realistically represent the political situation in the US in the game (minorities still can't vote until full citizenship parties appear).