Bronium

LOL You're talking to a history lover. The American Civil War was really fought to settle if the states had the right to succeed from the union. It was a matter of state's vs federal rights.

You're talking to an amateur science geek. Tries to understand complex stuff and fails horribly.

What does succeed mean?

To leave or separate one's self from an organization or group. Basically, the southern states in the U.S.A. wanted to separate from the rest of the states and form their own confederacy with one another.

They thought that the states should have more power than the federal government. For example, they thought states should be able to choose if slavery was allowed or not and that the states should be able to disband the union at any given point. So yes, slavery led to the Civil War, b...