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Pierce's support of popular sovereignty - allowing the settlers in territories to vote to decide to allow or forbid slavery- upset the delicate balance between slave and free states that since the Missouri Compromise, had kept the union together.
Southern states began to more easily envision a day when they would be forced to give up slavery and so began to talk more seriously about seceding from the union. He did nothing to reduce the tariffs which were an especial annoyance in the South.
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