Mr. Biden, words mean something....The North had a Civil War, they were fighting the South over tariffs. The South was involved with the War of Northern Aggression.; the South wanted to leave the union. For years before that unrest, no one wanted slavery except the ship builders of New England and banks who loaned money for the slaves; Lincoln used emancipation to political reasons to keep the war going until he/General Sherman destroyed the South for all practical purposes and ended a war that never should have been.