Originally Posted by tpcollins
It is my understanding that the war was because the south wanted states rights (including slavery I guess).

The south’s cotton industry was a HUGE source of revenue and Lincoln did not want to lose that economy.


Slavery was dying world wide. Another twenty years it would have been gone all by itself. Keep in mind the cotton gin was invented in 1793. Lincoln didnt care about slaves. He cared about the export tariff money on southern cotton. He needed to stop the south from leaving the union. He started a war to do it. In the south it is called "The War of Northern Aggression" for a reason. The south didnt fight a war to keep slaves. They fought because they were attacked. They simply fought back.

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