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The more of the new Western territories that joined the USA as free soil, the more power the North would enjoy in Congress, which would then pass more laws that favoured Northern interests.

This mostly concerned the tariffs on imported goods - effectively a tax on the South, which had no manufacturing capacity and depended heavily on imports.

But there was also the increasing power of the Abolitionist lobby, which not only opposed the extension of slavery, but wanted to ban slavery in its traditional heartlands too.

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