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Originally Posted by flaja
If the Civil War was about states rights and not slavery, just tell me specifically what the North/Federal government did to violate the south's states rights.
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I think the Civil War was fought on slavery as well. The south was an overwhelmingly agricultural economy and some of the wealthiest landowners and families owned land and grew cotton on the same scale an Iowa farmer grows corn today.
Simply put, the south needed slaves to help/labor in the fields to bring in the cotton. Slavery played a big role as the engine of the south's agricultural economy and industry!!!
The south also wanted states rights to own and manage their slaves as personal property......w/o interference from the North!!!!!