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