I always figure you can figure out the true cause of a war with multiple causes by removing one of them. If you do that and the it's generally agreed that yes the war wouldn't have happened if the problem wasn't around that that's generally the true cause. For the American Civil War the answer is slavery, simple as that. One can cite economic differences, state's right's, Lincolns election or anything else that they want but take slavery out of the equation and the war never happens it's that simple.
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"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years" - Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles.(Boy was he ever right.)
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