| whatever said: I don't know where you learned your history. Slavery was a point of contention between the Northern and Southern states for a long time, since the founding of the US. The issue came to a head when new states were being added to the US and with every new state, the issue of whether or not that would be a slave state caused tensions between the slave and non-slave states. So yes, states rights was an issue. But the only state's right that caused that much tension was the right to have slaves. And the war didn't officially start until the bombing of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, about 1 month after Lincoln took office.
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Yea, slavery was a hot issue, but it was being taken care of the right way, through education. 23 states had already banned it. I am sure in time it would have been baned in every state. The problem is when the majority wanted it banned, they then wanted to make it a federal law. Take the power away from the states. That's the wrong way to do it.
The war also did not ban slavery. Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky all had slavery, and they were allowed to keep it legal.
And you are right, the war itself did not start until after Lincoln had taken office, but seven states had declared their secession from the Union on February 9, 1861. Lincoln did not take office until March 4, 1861. So the war had not started, but the declaration of the "Confederate States of America" pretty much meant one was coming.
I will concede that it was about slavery on some level. That's what they didn't want to loose with the states rights being taken away (sadly, some people seem to only care about there rights when it directly affects them). But some states that joined the south didn't care so much about slavery, they just hated there rights being taken away.
