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If you think it had everything to do with slavery you would be delusional. And your list is so woefully short as to be inconsequential. The central issue had been, and still was in 1860, about states rights. Lee didn't join the Army of Virginia to fight for slavery...to fight for the Confederacy...he was fighting for Virginia. Here is some good reading into the subject of General Lee http://americancivilwar.com/authors/Joseph_Ryan/Articles/General-Lee-Slaves/General-Lee-Family-Slaves.html

In 1860 the U.S.A. would have been more appropriately called something other than United. I find it interesting that 150 years ago the northern states were more amenable to a central government's authority and the southern were not...how is it today?[/quote]

Yes.  It had everything, directly and indirectly, to do with slavery.  States rights = the rights of stats to have slaves.  Why did Texas secede from Mexico?  Because Mexico banned slavery.  Why was Texas an independent country for almost 10 years?  Because it would enter the Union as a slave state and that was a huge issue.  The eventual compromise allowed Texas to enter as a slave state and also included provisions for additional free states.  It was all about slavery, for each state.  There were some counties of some Southern states that seceded from the South, to remain pro-Union, because they were poor and had no slaves and no interest in defending slavery.[/quote]

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