One of the biggest pretenses is to equate Secession with the Revolution.
How stupid do you think we are?
The Revolution occurred because we had NO representation in Parliament. There was no treason because colonists inherited colonialism and that the King was never selected in an election, we never consented to being a subject.
Southern (slaver) outrage was launched even though the South had controlled the federal government for seventy years excepting JQ Adams. When they lost it (total control) they acted like hysterical women and typical Demons complaining of a “tyranny” which was impossible in 1861 since the size of the federal government was tiny.
The whole insurrection was based on the Big Lie. The “Russian collusion” of the day and some still fall for it.
Lincoln repeatedly said that he would not have ended slavery unless the Constitution was amended to allow it.
You can trace the explosion in size of the federal government to the requirements to fight an insurrection.
That’s not quite how the London government saw it. You may not be familiar with King George’s August 1775 “Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition”. Other than the archaic language it sounds very much like Lincoln’s April 15, 1861 proclamation for 75,000 troops to suppress the rebellion.
This came after the 1774 ‘Petition to the King’ and the July 4, 1775 ‘Olive Branch Petition’ in which the Continental Congress stresses their loyalty as British subjects.