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There is a lot of theory that the main reason for the civil war was that the south was going to succeed and there was nothing Lincoln could do about it so he started the war because at that time the majority of the money this country made was from tobacco and other crops and those were grown and controlled by the south so the North would have been screwed without the south. Lincoln included freeing the slaves as a way to encourage them to turn to the side of the north and help them out and it had nothing to do with freeing them so because it was the right thing to do.
not sure how true it is, but it is one of the ideas I have read recently.
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