If the civil war wasn't fought over slavery, what was

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State's rights

>>137189024
The south wanted coke served in restaurants while the north wanted pepsi, looking back the south probably had the better argument but in his later years General Lee went a little nuts and started drinking RC cola.

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>>137189024
They were arguing over best girl.

>>137189024
sta'ates' rats to owne sla'aves

>>137189024
States' rights, more efficient government, fighting the takeover of special interests that undermine the equity of the union, a clear cut constitution to avoid issues of state vs federal, etc. US Constitution was too ambiguous hence all the problems that led to the civil war.
All you really need to do to understand is observe the differences between the Confederate and US Constitutions.
Was slavery part of it? yeah, but no exclusively and there are several more non-slavery differences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitution
Hell, we could omit the bits about slavery and put it as a package of amendments to the US Constitution and it's bound to get widespread support.

>>137189024
Economic war like all wars, really not that hard to figure out.
Civil war was the start of run away federal overreach also.

states rights. Slavery was an issue of states rights and yankees wanted to use federal powers to abolish it. Lincoln wasn't even on the ballot in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The south felt as if they were being ruled over without representation. Lincoln's entire platform was basically just anti south. There was an entire "abolitionist party" that hardly got any support.

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OP here, thanks guys, you helped me understand much better.

Slavery was the catalytic issue, but fundimentally the US civil war was fought over the role of the Federal Government, and whether the United States was a federation or a *con*federation.

In essence, the reason the war was fought was to decide over whether the Federal government was a servant or master of the states, whether the States were countries or merely provinces of the Federal Government. Even if the issue of slavery was resolved 100% peacefully, there would still have been a war fought at some point over the issue.

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>>137189024

Sephardic Jews ran the Slave trade and Ran a Cotton and tobacco monopoly in the south. They convinced the White Southerner that he was fighting the second American Revolution.

Abraham Lincoln was a peace of shit that starved hundreds of thousands of southerners to death, but he did keep the Union together and less likely (which ended up being inevitably) preyed upon by foreign banks.

Sad reality.

>>137189024
That's a really cool map

>>137189024
also
it was a fight to overthrow the new york capitalist

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>>137189024
>If the civil war wasn't fought over slavery

>>137189024
>pussy
All wars are fought for it

>>137189024
Federal power

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Money played off as state's rights.

The South had a disproportionate amount of wealth compared to its population size. When Lincoln, a known abolitionist, was elected in spit of the entire South uniting against keeping him out, they realized they were fucked. Sadly, the South was overly reactive in their fear that Lincoln would abolish slavery in the short term with a long term fear that they would slide into political irrelevance against the North's overwhelming advantage in numbers, and shot themselves in the foot by leaving instead of trying to let slavery die on their terms over several decades when it started to hit diminishing economic returns. So, instead, the US got a hard departure from slavery that left everyone pissed off and divided, we got several of the worst amendments ever conceived, and a gross expansion of the Federal government.

>>137189181
Shhh that makes sense.

Honestly surprised by the amount of well thought out answers itt giving all the shilling and shit flinging tonight.

>>137196152
kek

>>137189024
States' Rights. Mostly their right to own slaves and how slaves were counted for electoral votes/representatives.

>>137196848
As well am I.