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The Civil War ended most nullification efforts. In the 1950s, southern states attempted to use nullification and interposition to prevent integration of their schools. These attempts failed when the Supreme Court again rejected nullification in Cooper v. Aaron, explicitly holding that the states may not nullify federal law.
Foner, Eric et al. "Talking Civil War History: A Conversation with Eric Foner and James McPherson," Australasian Journal of American Studies (2011) 30#2 pp. 1–32 in JSTOR; Ford, Lacy, ed. A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction Blackwell, 2005) online; Grow, Matthew. "The shadow of the civil war: A historiography of civil war memory."
The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights, and the Nullification Crisis (1987) Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854 (1991), Vol. 1; Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Crisis in South Carolina 1816–1836 (1965) ISBN 0-19-507681-8; Howe, Daniel Walker.
The influence of Jefferson's doctrine of states' rights reverberated right up to the Civil War and beyond. [2] Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution "contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits". [2]
Background factors in the run up to the Civil War were partisan politics, abolitionism, nullification versus secession, Southern and Northern nationalism, expansionism, economics, and modernization in the antebellum period. As a panel of historians emphasized in 2011, "while slavery and its various and multifaceted discontents were the primary ...
After 1811, South Carolina opened a statewide system of "free schools", where white children could learn literacy and basic math at public expense. Other Southern states imitated this system. Before the Civil War it became a primary mode of organizing what became known as basic "poor schools."
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
[2] The influence of the Jeffersonian doctrine of states' rights, however, reverberated right up to the Civil War. [4] The future President James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that the Kentucky Resolution "contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits." [4]