Why did southerners argue states' rights were violated by abolition of slavery? a) they believed all states should be slave states. b) abolition would cause states to pay higher taxes. c) abolition violated states' rights to choose what their laws should be. d) they argued abolition would cause freed slaves to take over their states.

C) Abolition violated states' rights to choose what their laws should be

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the civil war was a fulfillment and completion of the constitution, not a revolution against it. changes in culture and society surely affected political life. lincoln hoped to bring the north and south together after the war by healing the nationand making people lose their resentment.

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