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Many southerners believed that world powers would need there cotton, giving them the confidence to take on the more powerful and resourceful north.

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The North did not agree with slavery like the south did.

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The North feared that if slavery continued to expand to new territories they would inevitably join the southern slave-holding states making the north irrelevant and the United States would eventually become totally dominated by elite Southern slaveholders.

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The Slave states were adamant that slavery was a state issue and they were unwilling to accept any federal intervention on the subject.

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The novel with its tremendous success was instrumental in changing the public perception on slavery.

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That meant that instead of having a latitude divide the slave and non-slave territory, the residents of the state would decide whether it joined as a slave state or a free state.

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The election of Lincoln caused the state of South Carolina to call a state convention which voted unanimously in favor of secession on 20th December, 1860. The “cotton states” of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed suit, seceding in January and February 1861.

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The court denied Scott’s request ruling that a negro, whose ancestors were imported into the United Sates and sold as slaves, whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.

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Though his election may not have been the primary cause for the war but it sent warning bells ringing in the southern states leading to secession and finally the civil war in 1861.

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The American abolitionist movement emerged in the 1830s as part of religious revivalism seeing slavery as a personal sin and emancipation as a repentance for the sin.