Yes. To preserve a system of industry based on the use of slave labor.
And it chose a path of violent secession in order to do this.
“War of Northern Aggression’’. What a crock.
The South opened the ball when it fired on Ft. Sumter.
Ft, Sumpter was in South Carolina, a southern state. Lincoln ignored the request to remove Union troops from the fort, hoping to provoke the Confederacy into reacting so he would have an excuse to invade.Besides Gettysburg where else did the Confederacy invade the North? IIRC, 95% of the battles were fought in the South.
Lie. You are trying to pretend that the *UNITED STATES* did not protect this system of industry based on the use of slave labor.
Make no mistake. The *UNITED STATES* was going to keep protecting slavery indefinitely. Stop trying to lie us into believing that would have ever changed.
The South opened the ball when it fired on Ft. Sumter.
Lincoln started the war when he attacked the South with his war fleet. He committed the first belligerent act.