One of the most common justifications for Southern secession was “states rights,” but it was not the real cause of the American Civil War.  Southerners loved the Federal Government so long as they controlled it.  The most intrusive Federal statute against the states was the Fugitive Slave Law, and it was passed with Southern votes More

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