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If you attended "school" in the last 30 years or so you would be taught that it was only fought to preserve the Union. Lincoln said as much, and many take him at his word. But that simple answer is only provided by those who want to appear "politically correct". The better question is: would the civil war have been fought if slavery did not exist? The answer to that question is no. Slavery caused the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas Nebraska Act which led to Bloody Kansas and the john Brown Rebellion, all of which set the stage for, and defined the cause of, that great war.

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