“State rights - The leaders in the South wanted the states to make most of their own laws. In the North, people wanted a stronger national government that would make the same laws for all the states. Slavery - Most of the Southern states had economies based on farming and felt they needed slave labor to help them farm.”
This is an opinion. If you value the progress that the rediscovery of the Americas made, write in favor of him. I’d you value the genocide and wrongdoing of his actions more, argue against him.