The Last Battle of the civil War

If in fact the war was about ending this horrible act of slavery. then slavery would have been ended prior to the war. As i said it was about the federal gov. coming to the southern states the telling them there was something they were not allowed to do.
the reason this was so heated was not because it was the first time the federal gov. had taken action toward southern states. The issue of ending slavery in the south was the final straw for the southern states. It has nothing to do with weather or not slavery was right or wrong.
yet we still have answered my 3 questions.
when was slavery ended in the north and the south.
what document ended slavery.
and why did the north wish to end slavery.

To answer your three questions:
Slavery ended in the northern states during the immediate post-war (Revolutionary) period.
The 13th Amendment ended ALL slavery.
Lincoln passed the emancipation proclamation to make slavery PART--here's the key--PART of saving the Union.

Claiming that the war was CAUSED by the issue of slavery and claiming that the United States fought the war to free slaves are two different issues.

At first, the war was about saving the Union, and only saving the Union--which doesn't negate the fact that the Confederacy wasn't established out of a fear that the insitution of slavery was threatened.

Lincoln used emancipation and abolishing slavery as part of the larger effort to preserve the union.

Claiming that the stated goal of ending slavery changed regarding Lincoln's vision for a new union doesn't take away slavery's role in causing the war. Or put another way, the Confederacy was still established out of a fear that eventually the United States was going to slowly--or immediately get rid of the institution of slavery.

I don't understand this obsession many have with wanting to diminish the role of slavery by claiming "the war was about federal government interference in the South's affairs," or "states' rights.." Which are basically two rather meaningless, vague statements to make when the salient issue was unmistakably over the future of the institution of slavery.