Describe thoroughly and in detail the road to war.
Describe thoroughly and in detail the road to war. Debates are still ongoing to establish the main reasons that led Mississippi and the southern states to leave the union. Some of the reasons, which are frequently cited to have led to the war, include high tariffs and the rights of states. However, Mississippi has defended itself citing promotion of slavery as the primary reason for its secession (Percy, 1969). Before the civil war decades, slavery had grown at an alarming rate in Mississippi. By 1860, the population of slave was over 430,000 as compared to the ...
