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It’s true that the North AKA the United States did not start the Civil War to end slavery. Mainly because the North did not start the Civil War at all. Souther
by snowwrestler 6y ago
It’s true that the North AKA the United States did not start the Civil War to end slavery. Mainly because the North did not start the Civil War at all.
Southern states started the Civil War by seceding to form the Confederacy, and more specifically by attacking U.S. Fort Sumter, an act of war. They did that to preserve and expand slavery. So it’s still correct to say that the Civil War was about slavery.
- Gibbon1 6y agoOne thing I note is eight months after the civil war started France invaded Mexico. After the Civil War ended the US made sure they had to leave. And then helped Mexico kill Maximilian. I feel like in that context the South's attacks on the United States Southern coastal defenses wasn't acceptable. But yeah the south leaving the Union was all about slavery.