which of the following best show how the issue of states rights contributed to the onset of the civil war?

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1. The debate over slavery in the territories and how it should be regulated by the federal government or left to the individual states to decide
2. The Nullification Crisis of 1832, where South Carolina attempted to nullify a federal tariff law, asserting its right to determine the constitutionality of federal laws
3. The differences in economic interests between the agrarian South and industrial North, with the South arguing for states' rights to protect its agricultural-dependent economy
4. The Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that the federal government could not regulate slavery in territories, further inflaming tensions between states' rights and federal authority.