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Why were white Southerners willing to wreck the Union their grandfathers had put together with so much love and labor?

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The expert determines why white Southerners are will to wreck the Union their grandfathers had put together with so much love and labor.

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The Federal union had come about by secession. Angered by unfair British tax policies, the Founding Fathers took secession from the authority of the British crown as the only means to redress their grievances. The Constitution which succeeded the successful Revolutionary War was a compromise between Southern and Northern interests. Many leading figures at the time supposed secession to be a given right. What other recourse could an oppressed minority have from a general government that had become tyrannical? The writings of many founding fathers advocated the right of secession. It was ...

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