The argument that the Civil War began primarily as a southern fight to defend liberty and the right of self-government is unsatisfactory because:the Union already claimed to be fighting to defend liberty and self-government.southerners never claimed to be concerned with liberty and self-government.the South established a monarchy after secession.the Confederacy envisioned a dictatorship as the ideal government.it ignores slavery, the actual reason that southern leaders used in 1860-1861 to justify secession and war.

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