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When Abraham Lincoln got elected many Sourtherners believed that their rights would no longer be respected, so they left the Union.

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Tariffs were taxes levied on imported goods. The tariff crisis caused enough problems that it split the union and the succession followed.

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The Dred Scott Case was a supreme court case that stated that African Americans were property, not citizens and upheld slavery in the United States territories.

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In 1860 eleven southern states withdrawled from the Union.

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The westward expansion lead to the creation of more states, this lead to more political views, so as a result more tension was spread throughout and between the states.

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This offered an amendment to the bill banning slavery in new territories.

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Popular soverignty caused a small civil war that lasted 4 months in Kansas. This led to further violence that pushed us toward the civil war. This was called Bleeding Kansas.

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The Missouri Compromise was making Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state.

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The Free Soil Party opposed to slavery expansion into any new territories or states.

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Sectionalism was favoring the interests of one section over the interests of the whole country.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin was an antislavery novel that spoke out powerfully against slavery.

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States' rights were about how much power the states should have compared to how much the federal goverment should have.

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During Civil War the Union tried to blockade the southern states by preventing any states from getting goods, troops and weapons from entering the states. The Union thought this would collapse the Confederate states.