re: True or False...the civil war was fought over slavery.

Don't open up this can of worms.

How much longer would slavery have lasted if there were no war? It wasnt exactly a new thing

False, but only by constraints of your question. It was more than that, but it was one of the reasons.

Much too complicated to answer true or false. It was fought over animosity the south had for the north. Slavery was certainly the biggest single issue. But as said, slavery was an economics issue, so it's accurate to say it was over economics.

There were other very serious issues. The South had long taken a serious stance against the overreaching federal government. It's no small thing that the South formed a Confederacy. Most liberals couldn't define what a confederacy really is.

False.

False. It was states rights.

I hate it when liberals try to say it was slavery because slavery wasn't an issue until Lincoln made it an issue to get support from the north who was close to giving what South what they wanted.

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hence again why you and the idiot left brigade crying about a statue of a man is hilarious.

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i'm crying about the statues? interesting spin

i thought it was people that don't live in the cities where officials voted in office by residents of said city, controlled what type of monuments are and are not on display on public lands, and are complaining about it, who were crying.

maybe you mistook my laughing at how much some people care about the history of a loser movement 150 years ago as whining?

False States' Rights

[quote]What percentage of the southern population owned slaves in 1860? At the peak of black slavery in the South, only 6 percent of Southern whites owned slaves. If you include the white people in the North, it means that only 1.4 percent of white Americans owned black slaves at the HEIGHT of slavery. An estimated 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 black slaves in the year 1860. Hey Kids... It's Time For Some Dumb Myths And Smart Facts About ...

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I just refuse to believe that 94% of the population would fight for the other 6% to keep and maintain their wealth

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lol frick i was optimistic in the first paragraph

then started the second paragraph and thought 'there it is'

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This in the first paragraph spells it out pretty nicely:

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The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right.

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True. From President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address:

"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it."