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The south was losing the battle over slavery in the election of 1860. The Republican Party platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed the further extension of slavery into the U.S. territories. Southern states wanted popular sovereignty giving the power to determine the legality of slavery to the inhabitants of the territory seeking statehood, rather than to Congress.

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