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Meltdown Of 1860

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Before the election of 1860, the conflicts between the north and the south were already significant. The meltdown of the 1850s is the compilation of a series of events where the north and the south disagreed. Such disagreements inspired the succession of southern states which eventually sparked the American Civil War. In the decade before the civil war, the north and south’s point of view of the slavery institution became poles apart. The north wanted to eradicate it, while the south wanted to spread it to the newly acquired territories. This differences eventually leads to conflicts surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska act which repealed the Missouri compromise. The northerners were outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska act and that eventually
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