[DiogenesLamp]

The modern justification for all of the bad things that were done in the Civil War is slavery.

And this is because that is what people have been taught. Information that undermines this view is simply not taught. Have you ever heard of the Corwin Amendment?

http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2013/02/18/the-other-13th-richard-albert

[Bull Snipe]

“The modern justification for all of the bad things that were done in the Civil War is slavery”

This view of the Civil Was is just as incomplete/incorrect as the “lost cause” tenet that slavery had absolutely nothing to do with secession or the coming of war.