What time period are you referring to because at one time no.
Because If I am correct, they were the first Southern State to Secede from the Union. Also, that is where the first shots of the civil war were fired.
Alright. States’s right was easily of the biggest issues during the civil war. The main idea is that the Slaving-owning South believed that the Abolitionist North would eventually make slavery illegal, as the North held more political power then the South. They decided that in order to keep the North from using the federal government to abolish slavery, they would weaken the federal government. Thus the concept of State’s rights was used as an argument for Southern leaders and politicians.
They were upset because the law forbade them from settling in the Ohio River Valley where there was fertile soil for farming, and the Native Americans weren't using it, plus many colonists had already bought land west of the Appalachians and now weren't allowed to move. Many colonists did not respect the Native Americans and did not want to preserve their land. The colonists just ignored the law and moved across the Appalachians.
The treaty of Versailles was a bad idea. It benefited countries like Britain, France and America as they where the top powers to come out of the war. It blamed all of the damages caused to their countries squarely on the Germans simply because Germany was the best target. The German where forced to surrender all their foreign lands. They where forbidden from entering the Rhineland. They where forbidden from uniting with Austria. They where forced to pay reparations to the winning side after the war, leaving the German people and the Wiemar republic in poverty! If it wasn't for all these terms suppressing Germany, Hitler would never pushed the boundaries of the treaty, the Nazi's where unlikely to ever rise to such power as they where elected as a last hope when Germany lost faith in democracy and therefore Britain would not have had to declare war on Germany for taking over Poland and Slovakia, entering the Rhine and uniting with Austria. It is often said that WW1 was just a build up to world war two, as if it wasn't for the treaty of versailles none of this was ever going to or even had a possibility f happening.
