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FFS, the VP of the Confederacy comes right out and says, in one of his speeches, that the reason they started the war was because the only thing black people were useful for were laboring in the hot sun, and it was the white man's god given duty to enslave them.

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech#:~:text=Our%20new%20government%20is%20founded,his%20natural%20and%20normal%20condition.

Really pushing the definition of ‘word’ here

Y'all wanna hear something crazy? There is a video on Youtube that runs down the cause of the Civil war in like 5min. It covers all the bases, explains the context, IT'S A PRAGER U VIDEO!!!!

The evidence is clear and overwhelming. By a large margin, the single most important cause of the Civil War was slavery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcy7qV-BGF4

B. Easy money.

Follow up question: Why did those states votes to succeed?

Here's Mississippi's answer:

In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

tl;dr: We're fucked if we can't run our economy on slavery. And they were right!

You know I went to high school in Florida back in the 80s, and even my old white racist history teacher who insisted it was either the "War of Northern Aggression, or the "War Between the States*" flat out said the south seceded 'because of slavery.' She knew it was pointless to claim otherwise. You only need to read each state's declaration of secession to see it writ in plain English.

*Because thee's no such thing as a "civil" war, was her excuse.

Slaves. The word your looking for is Slaves.

I don't think any of those options count as "a vocabulary word"

I'm surprised they didn't call it the War of Northern Aggression.

Yeah I’m filling in the dot for E on the scantron