The excerpt supports what point of view about the cause of the Civil War. South Carolina joined the Confederacy on April 3rd, 1861, they believed the union was going against their constitutional rights, and they didn’t want to be controlled by the government.
The war began because there was no compromise that could resolve the differences between free and slave states over the power of the central government to prohibit slavery in non-state territories.
The popular explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issues of slavery. In fact, the economics of slavery and the political control of the system was central to the conflict.
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