According to many Antebellum southerners, the issue of "states' rights" revolved around their right to A) bear arms. B) own slaves. C) worship freely. D) import foreign goods.
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According to many Antebellum southerners, the issue of "states' rights" primarily revolved around their right to own slaves. (B) The concept of states' rights was often invoked to defend the institution of slavery and to argue that individual states had the authority to determine their own policies on slavery, including whether to allow or prohibit it. This argument became a significant point of contention between the Northern and Southern states leading up to the American Civil War.