How was abolition a cause of the civil war?

Answer 1

Abolition actually wasn't a direct cause of the war. the souths fear of abolition was but Lincoln only ever said that he would stop slavery from expanding into the west, not abolish it completely. but southerns feared that down the road, the abolitionists in the governmnet would want to eliminate it completely. when Lincoln was elected, seven southern states seceeded just because of their fears. even during the war, Lincoln started out sticking with his original statemnet of not abolishing slavery. this was to keep the border states with the Union. the emancipation proclomation was actually a war stragedy. it was to keep some foreign nations on the unions side.

during the war, the south argued that they were fighting for states rights. the north said they were fighting to save the union and to keep the country united. but really, slavery ws the main cause for every problem that had caused tension between the two regions. so slavery was a cause of the war, not so much the abolishment of it.