“It had renounced its bourgeois origins and elaborated and painfully rationalized its institutional, legal, metaphysical, and religious defenses ... When the crisis came it chose to fight. It proved to be the death struggle of a society, which went down in ruins.”
-- Historian, Dr. C. Vann Woodward
Examine the quotation provided in the box above and then determine which of the following was the primary rallying cry for the “society” mentioned.
Westward expansion
Federal oversight
States' Rights
Abolition of slavery
1 answer
States' Rights