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They still view the South as righteous. In Texas growing up I had history teachers refer to it as the war of northern aggression
I heard it referred to as "the war between the states," and that was at a deeply conservative religious private school.
Deliberately miseducating children is reprehensible behavior.
Which states rights? The right to do what, exactly?
Yeah even as a kid I found this whole “fundamental disagreement about how to run a state” argument to be nonsense
To keep slaves is the simple answer. More nuanced is that the southern states seceded because several "non-slaveholding" states refuse to follow federal law and return escaped slaves and the federal government refused to enforce those laws. (a good call)
There were a bunch of issues wrapped up in the road to civil war, but they were almost all related to slavery.
Who can forget when the garrison at Fort Sumpter aggressively followed their orders by not leaving when ordered to by a group of people with no authority. Those yank soldiers were standing there, MENACINGLY!
Don’t ask me who shot first
My honors US history professor taught us the Civil War was all about trade. Well, yeah, that was certainly an important part, Northern industry vs. agrarian South. It was a huge part of the war, both how it started and how it played out.
By FFS, did the man never read the various states letters of succession?! Here go a few.
And seriously people, read those letters. Don't clap yourself on the back for regurgitating, "It was SLAVERY!" Come at it from a learned point of view or you're no better than anyone else talking shit.