The Abolitionists were a small but powerful lobby in Congress, who were increasingly able to block the creation of new slave-states.
This weakened the voting power of the South in Congress, which would tend to pass laws unfavourable to the South.
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It gave Abolitionism a bad name, and raised the temperature of the debate.
sharecropping did not cause the civil war but it happened after when they couldnt have slaves anymore
The cotton revenues The unity of the nation v. the right to secede In a small degree, abolitionism