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Some causes of the Civil War are Lincoln becoming president and not wanting slavery in the states, tensions over states rights versus federal authority, and wesward expansion. President did not want slavery, so when he became president he was trying to abolish is. The southern states, which had major plantations, did not want to end slavery. 11 southen states declared their secession from the U.S. to make the Confederate states of America.

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