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Because the slave states and the free states were two very different sections, and new Acts of Congress were liable to benefit one section at the expense of the other.

After the Mexican war, and the acquisition of new territory, it was getting more difficult to create new slave-states, so Congress was looking more pro-Northern.

So the slave-states felt that their way of life was threatened.

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