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Prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War, the election of 1860 increased sectional tensions in the United States by lifting a pro-union, anti-slavery statesman, Abraham Lincoln, into the presidency. In reaction, Southern states protested in many ways, but in no more dramatic way than, one by one, seceding from the Union.

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