There are a few alternative historians who claim the American Civil War was not started for economic reasons between the North and the South states, but rather because Britain was trying to reclaim America. These historians will state how ever since the British defeat in the Revolutionary War they had been trying plot after plot to reclaim the United States. Having failed with the War of 1812 and later the establishment of central banking, Britain went for its next plan: civil war.

Just as during the Revolutionary War, agents of the British Royal Family and Rothschilds, such as Lord Palmeston, Giuseppe Mazzini, Albert Pike and George Peabody, were manipulating both the North and the South states to create a civil war so they could take over the divided nation.