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The main reason why the Boers and the British fought over Southern Africa was because large deposits of gold had been found in the region, and the Boers did not want the British to rule over the area and claim the riches.
Answer: fire-eaters
Explanation: The fire-eaters had been hard-line defenders of slavery, who, in June 1850, convened a Southern rights conference in Nashville, Tennessee, "to plot and undertake a few-mode of resistance to Northern aggression."
Disagreements over state's rights, slavery, and other issues, the Civil War occurred when the tensions finally grew too much.