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People felt loyal to their state and not the country (sectionalism)
If sectionalism was the only problem, the Civil War wouldn’t have occurred -
John Brown and 21 of his followers killed 5 slave supporters in Bleeding Kansas
Many people died in Bleeding Kansas and many people died in the Civil War. -
There were 4 candidates for the election and the South wanted John Breckenridge to win but Abraham Lincoln won and he was a republican
Lincoln blamed the tension on the South -
Fort Sumter was a union base that was out of supplies and it needed to resupply.
The North said that the South wasn't part of the United States.
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