1. While the four states did support slavery, they did not believe in sucession so they decided to stay with the Union instead of leaving with the other slave states.
2. Grant freed one that he owned himself in 1859, before the start of the war. The rest were owned by his father-in-law in a place called White Haven (don't look too much into the name) were he lived, managed and worked on with other slaves in Missori and they were freed at the end of the war.
3. Because Lincoln wanted to show that Republicans and Democrats can work together and felt that Johnson what the best one because he was from Tennesse, a slave state, who did not believe in sucession.
If you look at the last 15 years before the start of the Civil War, both sides were going at each other throats when it came to extending slavery out in the western territories. As for the tariff issue, that was resolved in the South's favor a full year before the start of the war, so how could that be a factor in the starting of the war? And, if it was about state's rights, what state's rights did they felt was in danger of losing?
Lincoln had always said that the preservation of the Union was the top prioity of the war. Both sides were to blame for the war in which they just do not want to listen to each other and view the other side as bad for the country. All of this is just the tiny tip on top of the iceburg because it was such a very complicated and volatile time where nobody knew what will happened.
I know I must be wasting my time with this thinking I could change your mind, but whatever. That's my say in this matter.
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