You’re being too short sigted It was economics. The North was the industrial power, the South agricultural. You should read up on that and come back later. As I mentioned in previous posts, this Civil War stuff has been debated here on FR for months on end. It’s wearisome and tiresome to continue with it. The South lost for whatever. The North won and the Union was preserved. The South still had control over the blacks there and ran Segregation and whatever until the 1960’s. It’s over. Done. Merry Christmas.
I have read plenty, you can’t say it wasn’t about slavery. The fear of losing their assets caused the south to take every action in congress to ensure more slave states. Read up and get back to me.
Don’t need your 20th century history refresher, but thanx.