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Sectionalism is when people are only loyal to a certain part of a country. People in the South didn't care about the North and felt like they were Southerners first and Americans second.

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People started to wonder if slavery should be allowed into new states. The Missouri Compromise added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Slavery was banned in states above the latitude 36'30.
Southerners felt that this gave too much power to the North.

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The Tariff of Abominations put taxes on imports. The South produced 75% of the worlds cotton. The South was angered that they had to pay taxes to trade with Europe because that was a large source of their revenue.

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California wanted to join the US and people argued whether it should be a free or slave state. The compromise was that California joined as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. This forced Northerners to turn in any slaves to tried to escape to their masters in the South.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book caused many Americans to join the Abolition Movement after revealing the evil practice of slavery. This angered many slave owners as they tried to convince people slavery was good for the slaves.

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The Republican Party was created to stop the spread of slavery and put an end to it. Southerners feared they would lose all their slaves and would break away from the US if a Republican became president.

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"Bleeding Kansas" is used to reference when there was violence and chaos between anti and pro slavery people in Kansas that lasted many years and costed many lives. This is a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 which cancelled the Missouri Compromise and the federal government said that the people who live in Kansas and Nebraska should decide if slavery should be legal. This caused pro and anti slavery people to commit fraud in order to change the vote.

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Dred Scott a slave sued for his freedom and nobody could agree on a decison. The case went to the Supreme Court, they ruled that black people have no rights in court, slaves are property and the "One Free Always Free" law (a law that said if a slave stepped into a free state that they would be free forever) would be cancelled. This angered abolitionist and sparked even more tensions between North and South

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Abolitionist John Brown and his sons tried to lead a armed slave rebellion to attack Harper's Ferry in Virginia that housed the most weapons in the South. The rebellion failed and he was put on trial and executed.

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The Southern states said that they would leave the US if a Republican became president. Abraham Lincoln a Republican was elected and this was the last straw for the South.

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Eleven of the Southern states left the Union and made a new country. They call themselves "The Confederate States of America".