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1. A sectional dispute over the extension of slavery into the western territories.

2.The breakdown of the political party system.

3. Growing cultural differences in the views and lifestyles of southerners and northerners.

4. Intensifying emotional and ideological polarization between the two regions over losing their way of life and sacred republican rights at the hands of the other.

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