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Eventually, everything boils down to Slavery. The States Rights that southern states promoted was a euphemism for their right to own, buy, and sell slaves. The differences in economic systems between North and South is a difference between a vast wage-based industrial complex and a vast slave-based agricultural complex. The industrial North favored high tariffs to protect American industries. The South favored low tariffs to sell cotton buy cheap goods overseas. Without slaves the large plantation system could not have existed.

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