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1st cause
The cotton Gin. it created more slave plantaions, which increased slavery -
States Vs. federal rights
the argument for better state rights or the argument for the federal government to have better control -
slave Vs. non-slave
the missouri compromise forbid slavery above the 34, 30" line. the wilmont proviso outlawed slavery in new territories. it got the south angry -
underground railroad
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abolition
slavery got more and more hated among the northern poeple. Uncle Toms Cabin made the hatred worse. -
President Lincoln
the south thought that he was anti-slavery and didnt think that was fair, so a lot of states left the union -
fort sumter