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Sure, they owned slaves, but so did the Founding Fathers.
- Indeed, but the inherent difference between the Confederacy and the Founding Fathers was that the Founding Fathers also advocated other points whereas the Confederacy essentially was all about preserving, protecting, and advancing their economic and society model that as entirely dependent upon a permanently enslaved underclass. In other words, the blemish of the Founders was the core of the Confederates.

Do you really think the North was about civil rights?
- No, the war was over economics, and the North didn't want the spread of unpaid slave labor to inhibit their capitalistic free market society. That being said, as the war progressed more and more of the North did view the cancerous nature of slavery as untenable with the system of American government and discourse and began to more stringently advocate for its abolition.

haha nope...the only reason they had fewer slaves was because they had more factories to produce things, and the only reason they even went to war was to maintain the union.
- Yes, they wanted to maintain the Union and prevent the disintegration of the nation that served as an ultimate protector for individual and economic rights. And last I checked, the South could've taken steps to modernize their economy at any time, but they refused to do so as they didn't want to upset their status quo built on the backs of enslaved blacks and marginalized poor whites. So.. way to not even make a point, at least your other sentences made easily refutable points rather than just be empty space.

So the South just wanted more freedom...just like how the Founding Fathers wanted freedom from the Brits.
- Name the freedoms that the South wanted, please. If you examine the Confederate constitution, it was an utter wash when it comes to states' rights, so that argument's an inherent no go. The only freedom they wanted was the right to own slaves, and I might also remind you that they specifically took away the state's right to abolish slavery within their own borders.

If you would have sided with the North in the Civil War then you also would have sided with the Brits during the Revolutionary War.
- Nope, this is a stupid take without merit, especially given a major feature of the war was in the North wanting to preserve the integrity of elections.

So, way to fail.
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