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Why did the confederacy go to war against the union

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South wanted slavery, rebellions because of Lincoln becoming president, John Brown's and other abolitionists actions, the consequences caused by Compromise of 1850, the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Act, and the controversy and Bleeding Kansas.

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