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The issue of the day that brought on the was was slavery--the Union abolished slavery and some states wanted to continue holding slaves. Intertwined with this is the matter of sovereignty of the national government over the individual states. Slave states, beginning with South Carolina, started seceding from the Union, but according to the Constitution they had no authority to secede.

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