Question

What is a reason that some historians provide to explain why many Americans support the idea that states’ rights caused the Civil War?

Answer 1

States' rights was not the main cause of the Civil War—slavery was. ... Southerners were united insupport of the Confederate cause; slavery was a benign institution ... The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s prompted historians and teachers to ... This facet of Confederate ideology helpsexplain why many white ...

Answer 2

Answer:

the U.S. government refused to recognize the southern states’ right to secede from the Union, and the C.S. government asserted that right by seizing federal property within its states' borders.

Explanation:

Although the Historians mostly believe that it is not one of the main causes of the war (it was most likely a proponent, only), this is what the supporters of the idea of State's rights commonly argue as the main reason for the Civil War.