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trump supporters say 1/6 was because Joe Biden stole the election...

That doesn't mean Joe Biden stole the election. It doesn't even mean that's what the people who planned it thought.

It just means that was the lie they told the public to get their supporters to show up.

Lincoln literally wouldn't shut up about how he wasn't going to ban slavery, it was in his inauguration speech even. And not just mezntioned in passing, it was literally his opening statement:

Fellow-Citizens of the United States:

In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of this office."

I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement.

Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that--

I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:

Now I'm going to chime in here, because the part coming up is what the civil war was really started over

Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/lincolns-first-inaugural-address

The South wanted a strong Federal government that would force Northern states to capture and returned escaped slaves and any children they may have, even if born after their escape.

The North advocated for a small and much less powerful federal government and said no state had to follow another's laws.

So the South lost the war and got what they wanted in a twisted monkey paw fashion: a stronger federal government with the power to force states to comply.

Is it faster to say "slavery"?

Absolutely.

But reasons for why the last civil war happened isn't just important for historical reasons unfortunately.

It's worth understanding it on a deeper level than a single word.

Tldr:

Believing the separatists during the civil war makes as much sense as believing trump for what happened 1/6.

Documents from Confederate leaders saying it was to protect slavery means as much to me as transcripts of Rudy Ghoulani's texts messages.

Listen to Lincoln.