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The Sotherners became minority in Congress. Seven slave states declared their secession and formed a Confederation, a separate nation.
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Confederate forces bombarded the fort in order to surrender Northern tropos. They took the fort and the North tried to recapture the fort and other federal properties.
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The lection of Abraham Lincoln in November 1960 drifted to the secession.
Southerners believed that Lincoln would stop spread of slavery. -
There were abolitionist movements which encouraged slave rebellions. One of these men was John Brown.
Southerners feared an event in Santo Domingo where women, children were killed after slaves revolt in Haití. -
The Southerners were loyal to the south regon of US. The Uncle Tom´s Cabin appeared by 1952 and the South men thought it was an insult to them.
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The Republican Party did not slavery to spread although the Southerners threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln won the 1860 election.
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The US anexed territories in Mexico and slavery was carried to those regions. There was the free-soil interests. The forces pro and anti-slavery collided.
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The doctrine championed by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party insisted that slavery should be excluded from the territories because of the Constitution.
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There were enormous diffferences in economic activities. Northerners were industrialized and urbanized cities while the South were cotton plantations based on slave labor
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The South controlled tax Tariff in Congress. The North wanted tariffs raise up because of manufacturin interests generated by industry. These taxes only increased after the North left Congress during war.
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There were important differences between the Nortyh and the South during the Anglo- American war .