robert e. lee
The general of the South, Robert E. Lee.
10th amendment
The 10th amendment to the Constitution from the Bill of Rights.
State's Rights
The only rights that the states are granted today are the right to a police/fire department, the rights to have school buildings/create school laws, rights to create taxes on their goods, and the rights to create marriage and divorce laws. Now they were also granted this in the 1850s/60s but the South felt that they had less of those rights because the North was attempting to force abolition on the South. The South wanted federalism, popular sovereignty, nullification, and succession. The South was also mad because their constitutions could not override the nations constitution. The South tried many times to gain these rights but were denied every time. The man who denied the South these rights was our 16th president Abraham Lincoln. Since the North kept denying their rights, the South began to become less loyal to their nation. Another specific person is Robert E. Lee. He became more loyal to his home state of Virginia and decided to be the General of the South instead of the General of the United States after he asked by the United States to be their general. The South kept believing that they had less rights and also thought they were losing their support for pro slavery. The nation wouldn't give them rights so the South finally decided to secede and the Civil War began.