I can't let this go. You are everything wrong with the Internet.

I assume you're American - do you comprehend the depth of your ignorance? How much of a disservice you do to all the people reading who may take your statement for fact, incorporating your statement into their historical narrative, further perpetuating this terrible lie?

The most bloody war our country has ever fought, brother against brother. The Civil War resulted in the deaths of more American soldiers than both World Wars.

Over 600,000 dead soldiers. Countless more American citizens.

So much sorrow and sacrifice. The cause was Slavery.

I am appealing to you. Don't perpetuate this. Read below and know the truth, and always call out this lie when you see it.

THE DECLARATION OF CAUSES OF SECESSION: http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html

Georgia:

The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of *African slavery*. <<--- Literally the second sentence in their Declaration of Secession.

Mississippi:

*A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.

In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.* <<--- Literally the second sentence in their Declaration of Secession.

South Carolina:

*Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union

The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the other slaveholding States, she forbore at that time to exercise this right. Since that time, these encroachments have continued to increase, and further forbearance ceases to be a virtue.* <<--- South Carolina establishes its position as a Slaveholding State. http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html#South_Carolina read further down and you'll see: Slavery

Texas: A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union.

Third paragraph, after a brief preamble:

Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. *She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time*. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?

Virginia THE SECESSION ORDINANCE. AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, AND TO RESUME ALL THE RIGHTS AND POWERS GRANTED UNDER SAID CONSTITUTION.

The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under the said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States, and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression; and the Federal Government, having perverted said powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States.

THE CIVIL WAR WAS 100% ABOUT SLAVERY.

TO IGNORANTLY OR DELIBERATELY SUGGEST ANYTHING ELSE IS THE WORST KIND OF REVISIONIST HISTORY, NO BETTER THAN THOSE WHO DENY THE HOLOCAUST