The Civil War, an event which took place in the mid-1800's ravaged the United States to the brim of social change. It began shortly after Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederacy. Many economic, political and social disagreements between the North and South involving slavery and whether or not states should have more independence all contributed to the start of the War. The Northern population believed in equality regardless of race or skin color and that slavery was unjust and should be abolished. Southerners believed the exact opposite. Since the South was more agriculturally gifted, it required more revenue for its steadily growing economy. To do this they mainly believed that free slave labor would help them earn more capital. The abolition of slavery created growing social, economic, and political disagreements between the North and South which led to the start of the Civil War. Granted, the rights of individual states was not the main cause of the Civil War, they were convincing enough to build-up to the tension between the North and South. The issues of states' individual rights were brought up during the confrontation between the North and South in the 1830s and 1840s. South Carolina argued ,"that an individual state, had the right to declare null and void within its borders as a Federal law that it considered unconstitutional or unjust" (Doc. 6). Although states' rights was an important ongoing debate topic, it didn't cause the violent reactions that slavery had come to cause. One case was during John Brown's raid. John Brown had led an eighteen men army into Virginia hoping to move slaves along the Appalachian Mountains out of slave territory, instigating a massive slave revolt. These actions outraged many Southerners because their own slaves were being taken from them as well as their land being destroyed by the abolitionists. Also this revolt put plantation owners' l