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States rights was one of the chief causes of the War between the States. The south believed they had the right to determine through their own sovereign governments the proper and optimum form and direction for each of them. The issue of slavery was another issue at hand. The South, which had controlled Congress on this question, came to fear that Lincoln would abolish slavery and thus began seceding after after his election.

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