>Many people claim that the civil war was over state vs federal authority. It was; the state vs federal authority to regulate / abolish slavery. Both points of

>Many people claim that the civil war was over state vs federal authority. It was; the state vs federal authority to regulate / abolish slavery. Both points of view are right but ignore the other half of the equation. >The confederacy also had strong centralized control over things like money. These were not temporary powers. Can you expound on this? One of the issues with the confederacy is their ability to fund the war through taxation, because many states didn't feel they were obligated to pay it, because state's rights (of course). It's pretty ironic that they seceded over the federal authority over slavery, and the lack of that authority in their own government to fund the war was a major contributing factor in them losing the war, and no longer existing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_war_finance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_war_finance It's crazy, the plantation class was unwilling to fund the war for their own economic survival, that they were winning at the time. Absolutely mind blowing.