The United States raised their people believing that power needed to be balance so that way any group wouldn't dominate the entire country. The southerners wanted to continue to deny the human rights of people because they wanted to have them as property, working for them and doing whatever they liked. They did all this because they wanted to run their farms and business cheaper than the folks ( people who didn't hold people in slavery). When people got tired of all that and wanted their human rights, southerners created a system of state rights saying that their state’s rights were being denied. People used these ideas of state rights VS federal rights VS human rights for many reasons, whether to keep slaves, or to stop slavery, or to stop
