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What role did the idea of states' rights play in the Civil War?

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The American Civil War was, ultimately, about one thing: slavery. ... The idea of states' rights, at its most basic level, is the idea that the states that make up the United States of America should have individual rights to work as their own independent governments beyond the control of the national government.

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