To be fair, the history of that particular war was written by the victors. The versions taught in the Nawth are far different than those that Southreners learned as recently as a generation ago.
Perhaps freedomjusticeruleoflaw is too young to have been taught that version, or he was raised in government propaganda mills in the Nawth?
Agreed, next it will be “ It was all about slavery” in the South that promoted the war from the North”
And in comes the weather, every Winter the North was economically devastated, the wise merchants moved to the Southern area of the Country, gained wealth and position, Why?
Due to the fact that ALL Northern ports around that time were centralized at the (cough) Seat of power, held by the still British Dutch, Spanish, German etc, Mercantile “Kingdoms”
So for most of Autumn through to mid spring those ports were Dead in the water (pun intended) And the Political powers that be were owned by the Mercantile Groups.
It was pressure from those groups that eventually forced the “slavery is bad” news broadcasts, and that “we ban slavery and the south do not want to, so we will invade”.
It was in fact an invasion for Economic Reasons, Not on “humanitarian”
But then again I could h ave made it all up and all the history that is still “accurate” that you can dig though was all just lies written before, during, and after those times.
Blessings.