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Colten Gottlieb ∙
Harriet Tubamn
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.
The north and the south became tow separate political entities.
Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
He would not interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed.
Republican Abraham Lincoln and southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge -Novanet
Constitutional Unionist John Bell
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.
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.