We've had an "explanation" all our lives. We have always been taught that the civil war was about slavery and nothing else.
I believed this for most of my life, and then I stumbled across some information that doesn't make any sense. (Like why Northern states had slavery too, but they didn't get rid of it there first.)
The South was actually producing the vast majority of money funding the national government, but somehow all the money was ending up in Northern pockets.
A war about money makes a lot more sense than a war about morality. Throughout history, most wars have been about money, land and power. Not too many people go to war because they feel sorry for some group of people. That didn't really make sense.
No disrespect meant to the original poster. Just my two cents.
No worries. I believed what most people believe for most of my life.
The South voted for the same Import Tariffs and the North. It was a voluntary tax. It's like you are saying, in today's tax terms, that the Lottery could be the reason for interstate war. After all, some guy in Illinois won Mega Millions, and the South sure bought a lot of Mega Millions Lottery tickets.
We know the reason for the illegal split, and it was solely slavery, according to the CSA’s most elite elected representatives.
I would love to hear how you changed your mind. Don’t need details from sources, just how it started, and what things swayed you as resources, etc. perhaps even any logic you realized when thinking of it more?