Although we often view the Civil War as a war about slavery, the war was also the nation's greatest crisis in federalism. A key question decided by the war was whether a state has the right to

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The Civil War was a conflict over states' rights and the extent to which federal authority could be exercised over individual states. The issue of secession and whether a state had the right to oppose federal action through force of arms was the central question in the war. Choices A, B, and C are related to states' rights, but they were not the central issue in the Civil War.

Although We Often View the Civil War as a War