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"I want to break down bureaucratic sectionalism, vested interests, and the blind adherence to precedent."

In 2010, Texas’s Board of Education adopted academic standards saying the conflict was caused by “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery.”

The state’s roughly 5 million students would be taught that the cause of the war was “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery.”

Students were being taught that there were three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery.

After discussion Friday, the board approved directing students to consider “the central role of the expansion of slavery” in causing sectionalism, disagreement over state’s rights and the Civil War.