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The root cause of the American Civil War was
slavery
Discuss the importance of slavery
It became essential to the agricultural economy of the Southern colonies
What invention made having slavery profitable in the Southern colonies
Eli Whitney's cotton gin in 1793, which led land owners to plant large plantations of cotton
When the Civil War began there were _________ million Southern whites and __________ million salves in the Southern colonies
5 million; 4 million
Who believed that states' rights were more important than federal authority and declared that a state could refuse to obey a federal law?
Andrew Jackson