re: Stupid Things Your Teacher Said That Aren't True

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Let me guess.... It was about State's rights? Yet the secession of the first state was in direct response to an Abolitionist being elected president. The chief "right" of which was the right to the normal agrarian culture the south was used to, ie chattel slavery. So yes it was about state's rights, the right to slavery the chief among them.

Yes I know two northern states had slavery, but Maryland had to be made to stay in the Union because the location of the capitol and delaware had slavery, yet it was on the decline. Delaware was also vital to the north.

To say the civil war wasn't about slavery is silly, to say it was all about slavery is also wrong. But YES, it was about slavery.

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