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The Civil War did not start over slavery.

Maybe not, but it finished over slavery.

It even finished slavery.

[i_robot73]

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>>The Civil War did not start over slavery.

Maybe not, but it finished over slavery.

It even finished slavery.
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Missed one: It finished the Republic.

And, finally, I truly wish the ‘Civil War’ misnomer would DIE. The CSA wasn’t fighting over-throw the North, they were fighting their OWN ‘War of Independence’. Even the ‘War of Northern Aggression’ isn’t correct.

Bad enough the shit & downright lies they feed most K-12, they have to pervert the English language at the same time.

/peev rant off

But, yes, I do believe Lincoln and that war were the start of the fall of the Republic. Hell, even 100yrs ago The People still talked of ‘States of the Union’, our Republic...even IF they were voting in the Leftists that would rip the last of the visages asunder. They’d have been aghast, and hopefully ASHAMED, of what we have become today.

[rawcatslyentist]

It even finished slavery.

Except for the "except" in the 13th, and the current for profit penal system.

[Svartalfiar]

The Civil War did not start over slavery.

Maybe not, but it finished over slavery.

It even finished slavery.

Um, no, it didn't. At the end of the War of Northern Aggression, there were still several states that had slaves, such as: Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri, Maryland, and several others. They weren't freed until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, six months after the war ended.

Because Lincoln didn't want to push the border states into supporting the Confederacy, his Emancipation Proclamation specifically DID NOT free any slaves in the states he legally had control over. He only 'freed' the ones in states that were no longer part of his Union.