[Rusty0604]

The civil war?

[ladyjane]

Yes - the Civil War - or more accurately the War of Northern Aggression.

The government was taxing all the bales of cotton. The cotton was supplying 80% of all the money coming in to the new US government. There was no income tax.

The people of the south got tired of being bled and deprived of their (states) rights.

Civil War.