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Tanya Dach ∙
Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
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.
Several events contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. Many people consider the 1861 battle of Fort Sumter to be the direct trigger.
During that time Taney led the Supreme Court, which declared slaves to be property.