Want to know what ended slavery in the USA? Two words:...

[misanthrope]

..."potato famine."

[John Q. Citizen]

1. cotten-gin

[misanthrope]

4. Actually, Whitney's invention of the cotton gin...

...was what led to the utter explosion of the cotton market in the early 19th Century. It facillitated the system that utilized slavery the most.

[firebee]

5. Technically.... The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution started the Civil War and ended slavery... sort of. It definately started the Civil War and it ended slavery, but I can't say it ended the weathy's continuous oppression of the labor market.... Greedy Ba$t@#d$!!!

Anyhow, One of the primary reasons Lincoln opposed slavery was because of the introduction to mechanics, steam engines and other industrial inventions, such as the Cotton Gin. Lincoln believed the continuation of slavery would in fact.... promote a decline in the U.S. economy due to the industrialization taking place in Europe. This led to his support of abolishing slavery, which led to the Civil War.

Amazingly, we find the Republican Party being completely opposite now. Instead of promoting innovation and researching new possibilities, such as stem cell research and alternative fuels; they're stuck in a mode of regressing science and maintaining dependence on an industry detrimental to the U.S. economy... That being oil.

"A reformer has enemies in all who profit from the old ways."
(Niccolo Macchiavelli - The Prince)

[Old Mouse]

7. different opinion

The South's dramatic economic rise in power made them unwilling to accept federal mandate against their interests.

Although Lincoln found slavery morally abhorrent, freeing them was an economic move to blunt the south's power.

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. "

[knowbody0]

2. my dead relatives

had green mouths. i know of what you speak

[rawtribe]

3. Slavery

was outsourced to the third word.

[sweetheart]

6. Where it is pracitced in greater numbers today than ever before

in history.... big victory that. Good to hear that the US is
committed to ending slavery or it would not be on the rise.

golly! /irony off