When South Carolina forced the surrender of Fort Sumter.
(novanet) most crops were tended with slave labor
He believed that the people of each new state should vote on whether it should be a slave-state or free soil.
He failed to see that each time a new state went to the polls, every bully-boy in the USA would descend on that one state, to try to influence the vote, either legally by buying a cheap property to qualify as a voter, or illegally, by intmidating the local citizens and trying to get the result declared to be rigged.
president truman ordered american troops moved from japan to south korea.
The north and the south became tow separate political entities.
Republican Abraham Lincoln and southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge -Novanet
Taney led the U.S. Supreme Court as Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision.
Total War to bring about a Southern surrender as quickly as possible…
He hoped to inspire a revolution that would end slavery.