What If the South Won the Civil War

What if the South Won the Civil War

“The flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a typhoon half way around the world.” This of coarse comes from the chaos theory or what I have come to know it as the Butterfly Effect. It means that something so small and so insignificannot

can ripple its way to cause something so big that it could potentially change the world.

Now let us turn back the clock to the 1865, all the way back to the Civil War. As we all know the North won this war, even though some southerners would still think otherwise. In the history books it says the north won. Now what if we could play God, and change the history books? What if we changed them so that the South had won the Civil War? How would our country or countries be different? I believe that if this moment in time was changed, the ripple effect over the next 142 years would be so incredibly different we wouldn’t be able to believe it. The country as we know it would be change economically, socially, geographically, and the way that our two governments interact. It is of course impossible to know how the world would be now as we know it, but we can start with the first ripples and see if we cannot

get to that typhoon half way around the world.

Some historians have claimed that slavery would have died out on its own by the turn of the 20th century, due to economic reasons and that North and South would have reunited shortly thereafter, along the lines of the current United States. Some others think otherwise. “A Southern victory at Gettysburg leaves the Union wide open for plunder and sends Lincoln's government into exile. The South, no longer needing