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Because Lincoln had won the election of 1860 on a ticket of no new slave-states. This meant that the South would always be outvoted in Congress.
At the peak in 1860 there were 3.9 million slaves in the south.
South Carolina
The amount of "manufacturing" in the United States more than doubled between 1860 and 1900.
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in Nov. 1860.