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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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trump supporters say 1/6 was because Joe Biden stole the election...
That doesn't mean Joe Biden stole the election. It doesn't even mean that's what the people who planned it thought.
It just means that was the lie they told the public to get their supporters to show up.
Lincoln literally wouldn't shut up about how he wasn't going to ban slavery, it was in his inauguration speech even. And not just mezntioned in passing, it was literally his opening statement:
Now I'm going to chime in here, because the part coming up is what the civil war was really started over
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/lincolns-first-inaugural-address
The South wanted a strong Federal government that would force Northern states to capture and returned escaped slaves and any children they may have, even if born after their escape.
The North advocated for a small and much less powerful federal government and said no state had to follow another's laws.
So the South lost the war and got what they wanted in a twisted monkey paw fashion: a stronger federal government with the power to force states to comply.
Is it faster to say "slavery"?
Absolutely.
But reasons for why the last civil war happened isn't just important for historical reasons unfortunately.
It's worth understanding it on a deeper level than a single word.
Tldr:
Believing the separatists during the civil war makes as much sense as believing trump for what happened 1/6.
Documents from Confederate leaders saying it was to protect slavery means as much to me as transcripts of Rudy Ghoulani's texts messages.
Listen to Lincoln.
So if the North agreed on slavery, there would have been no war because escaped slaves wouldn't have been a problem? So, slavery I think is perhaps the most accurate one word answer.