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States rights, Extention of slavery and Tarriffs.
Oh, got to love AP U.S. History students. Wikianswers, really?
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It was an issue of state's rights and with the election of Lincoln they thought that he would force the abolition of slavery on them without asking them. Today, there are still issues concerning states rights that echo the 1860's. The question is where does the rights of the states end and the federal government begin ? This was the essential issue in the 1860's.
There were around 3,950,000 slaves in Georgia in 1860.