[lizma2]

I was taught in a Chicago middle school that it was the war of “Northern Aggression”.

Slavery only came into it late in the game.

[DiogenesLamp]

I was taught in a Chicago middle school that it was the war of “Northern Aggression”.

I have heard it called that, and after doing quite a lot of research regarding elements of how it came to happen, I now see that as a reasonable argument.

But that's not what I was taught. I was always taught that the war was to liberate the slaves and to punish the South for attacking fort Sumter.

Slavery only came into it late in the game.

I've never heard anything about the civil war that wasn't attributed to slavery, at least not for most of my life.