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Slavery
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Northerners opposed slavery as a moral evil and accepted war as a necessary means to remove the "curse of slavery."
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Different Ways of Life
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The North was an expanding commercial and industrialized section, based on free labor. The South was an agrian society based on slave labor and the plantation system.
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Sectionalism
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Issues such as protective tariff, centralized banking, the expansion of slavery, free land in the West, subsidies and railroads, and state's rights.
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Declining Southern Influence in Government
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South were disturbed by the economic growth of the North and growing number of non-slave states. The victory of Lincoln and the Republican Party was the "last straw."
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Weakness in Leaderhship
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Extremists and agitators on both sides inflamed public opinion by distortions, exaggerations, and creation of misleading issues.
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