No, the reason for the Civil War was the rights of states to govern themselves independently. This (And slavery) were both majority held views (the North had slaves too).TheokhothWrong. The vast majority of population was against slavery at that point. United States Slavery and the 1860 Census Of the 27 million whites counted in the 1860 census, 8 million lived in the slave owning states of the South. Of these, 385,000 owned slaves. Statistically, 4.8% of all Southern whites owned slaves. When factored by the entire population, 1.4% of all United States whites were slave owners. The Gone With the Wind notion that most Southerners owned large numbers of slaves and lived in huge plantations is a myth. Read more at Suite101: The 1860 Census and Slavery in the United States: Interpreting Census Data and Research on Pre-Civil War Slavery http://www.suite101.com/content/the-1860-census-and-slavery-in-the-united-states-a83730#ixzz0wXUuzDDT
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