It quite simply, wasn't. That right there is Yankee Propaganda buddy.
it wasn't about slavery
Slavery split the US govn't in half and almost destroyed America in itself because of the civil war.
The civil war was fought because of slavery. North=No Slavery South=More Slavery
Slavery wasn't just "weakened" after the Civil War. Slavery was abolished by the Civil War, and by President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
The proximate cause was the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860; white Southerners feared, correctly, that Lincoln would work to end slavery in the US. Slavery was the principal cause of the US Civil War; states' rights were a secondary issue.
it wasn't about slavery
it wasn't about slavery
Yes.
Slavery.
Slavery
The most significant cause in the Civil War was unfair taxation, states' rights and slavery.
slavery and enconomic diffrences
That is up for debate. However, most experts agree that the main cause of the civil war was state's rights.
Slavery began the civil war
It was the primary cause of the American Civil War.
If the question is "Is the slavery a cause for the colonies declaring independence from Britain," then no. They wanted freedom from them. Slavery was a big issue in the Civil War, though.
The civil war happened because of slavery.