[pprimeau1976]

Slavery was an issue, noob, not the cause.

No, slavery was the cause of southern secession. The secession of the states and the war itself were two separate events. The cause of the southern secession was the fear that a Lincoln would somehow abolish slavery. The cause of the war was Lincoln's desire to keep the union together.

[cowboyway]

No, slavery was the cause of southern secession.

I guess you firmly believe that the cause of the Revolutionary War was the right of the people to drink tax free tea.

The people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the constitution of the United States by the federal government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the states, fully justified this state in then withdrawing from the Federal Union;