States' Rights
The southern states are not happy with the rights they have. They feel like all states should be slave states and they should be able to make their own rules and laws and not have to listen to the central government and southern states want to go off on their own.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was when the northerners got Maine as a free state and the south got Missouri as a slave state and all future southern states would be slave states and all northern states would become free states. This was a cause of the Civil War because it was on ongoing fight between the north and the south over slavery, the north wanted it gone and the south needed it!!
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Election of Lincoln Nov. 1860When Abe Lincoln campaigned, he campaigned that he was in favor of not having slavery and having a big government. None of the slave states voted for Lincoln but it's a good thing most of the population was in the north and Lincoln won or else we wouldn't have had our great 16th president who helped abolish slavery and our commander in chief for the Civil War.
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