[Mind-numbed Robot]

And what was the intolerable abuse that existed for the Southern states to secede?

Some say it was the tariff imposed on imported goods. That made it more expensive to import machinery than it was to pay the unnecessarily high prices of the same machinery from the Northern states. That was unbearable to many in the agrarian South.

[usmcobra]

There was a simple solution for the south to gain the necessary seats in the congress to repeal the tariff that were imposed upon them.

Do you know what that solution was?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Some say it was the tariff imposed on imported goods."

The same reason that the New England states gave at the beginning of the 19th century. Two founding fathers (Jefferson and Madison) as Presidents were unconvinced of this. And the New England states ended up not trying to secede and their militia forces did not fire on union troops. These things were solved politically.

[Non-Sequitur]

That made it more expensive to import machinery than it was to pay the unnecessarily high prices of the same machinery from the Northern states.

What machinery would that be?