re: Do you think the Civil War was started over slavery?

no...it was more about expansion of the Union and the misrepresentation in Congress...it was also about tyranny imho...the South did not want war, they simply wanted to leave peacefully, just as they had entere(ratification)....Lincoln wanted war, because he knew that was what it would take to get slavery abolished...slavery would have ended eventually in the South and if it had not been force and then Reconstruction handled like it was I truly believe some of the racism that has occurred since would not be as prolific..just my .02