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

Yes and No is the best way to explain it.

The South seceded over States' Rights issues. Issues involving taxation, tariffs, and yes slavery irrupted between South Carolina and the Federal Government over the decades prior to the war. However, before South Carolina officially seceded from the Union, Lincoln begged them to reconsider offering to allow them to keep slavery. South Carolina still left the Union, the other states followed.

Lincoln did not want to go down in history as the President who broke up the Union so he called up troops and the wheels were set in motion. His mission was to preserve the Union, Slavery wasn't the issue.

It wasn't until the threat of European nations getting involved on the side of the CSA did slavery become an issue officially. Europe did not want to be seen as supporting the existence of Slavery. What they saw in the secession movement as the breakup of a Democratic Union. This would help secure their own Monarchies. Britain had actually sent additional troops to Canada in preparation of aiding the CSA when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the southern states. This was enough to put a wedge between Europe and the CSA as now the CSA was fighting no only to leave the Union, but to keep slavery, thus keep England and possibly France out of the American Civl War.

False.

He has a long way to go to catch up to cad.

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before South Carolina officially seceded from the Union, Lincoln begged them to reconsider offering to allow them to keep slavery

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well why would he want to? no slaves means more expensive cotton means no re-election. they just wanted to stop it from spreading because of representation it gave the south in congress. they wanted...needed cotton and the tariffs basically crushed demand and left supply over loaded.

war is good politically speaking, and perhaps he didn't think there would be another election beyond the next one. look at the power he amassed...who would give that up?

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If there was no slavery, would the South have tried to secede? Probably not.

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So why did the slave holding states of the North stay in the Union?

Robert E Lee said that the war would be avoided if every slave was freed.

I don't give a shite what it was fought over. The reason has been defined as slavery and there's no need to discuss 1000x over.

Ironically the south brought the Civil War on themselves 100 years prior when they insisted on the 3/5ths compromise.

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

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Beyond silly that this has to be asked.

Proof of the Lost Cause non sense actually working on a sad minority of Neo Confederates and their sympathizers.

People in the south like to pretend that slavery did not play a major part in the split. Because it makes them feel better about their heritage and the south in general.