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☆☆☆☆☆When South Carolina forced the surrender of Fort Sumter.
(novanet) most crops were tended with slave labor
Because President Abraham Lincoln had won without getting a single vote from the southern states.
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
He would not interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed.
Constitutional Unionist John Bell
Because John Brown was outnumbered and he should have had a lot more people to start with. Few black or white Americans were prepared to join a rebellion led by a fanatical abolitionist.
Slave ownership in territories could be decided by popular sovereignty (Novanet Answer)
Taney led the U.S. Supreme Court as Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision.
The Republican Party
If I am correct, and I believe I am, the Compromise of 1850 ended the practice of slave auctions inside the borders of Washington DC.
He couldn't declare war, because that would mean recognising the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
So he called for volunteer troops - and the other side was in no doubt what they were meant for.
intoxication effect
