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When Lincoln was elected, many of the southern states decided they no longer wanted to be a part of the United States. They felt that they had every right to leave.

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The first fighting over the slavery issue took place in Kansas. In 1854, the government passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowing the residents of Kansas to vote on whether they would be a slave state or a free state.

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While moving on with the countries movement west there was debate on who's land was who's.

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The economies of many northern states had moved away from farming to industry. A lot of people in the North worked and lived in large cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. The southern states, however, had maintained a large farming economy and this economy was based on slave labor.

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The election of Abraham Lincoln caused lots of debate and with his thoughts on slavery helped start the war.

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In Kansas, particularly, violent clashes between proponents of the two ideologies occurred. One abolitionist in particular became famous for battles that caused the deaths of pro-slavery settlers in Kansas

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Additional territories gained from the U.S.–Mexican War of 1846–1848 heightened the slavery debate.

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Slaves ran away on the underground railroad to go to freedom and a new life.

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States’ Rights refers To the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power.

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Parts of the country banded slavery and other parts wanted slavery. Also land and cotton prices declinded so slave prices soared.