teachers tell their students that the civil war was not over slavery. why does this article say that it is actually is about slavery? people have to consider the reason educators give for the war in a united country. they say that abraham lincoln and his congress declared war because of the confederate's succession from the union. many students just take that information in and do not think about it at all, but the reason …
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…war. president lincoln used emancipation to help the union win the war. it played a predominant part in the war. as much as nobody wants to admit it, it is the actual cause of war. people just leave that part out, or make some stupid excuse, because slavery is an extremely sensitive subject. feelings aside, it was the cause for an independent country to have a war against themselves regardless of the constitutionality or unconstitutionality.