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in the events leading up to the civil war what was the relationship between states and the federal government affect that?

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Lincoln and many Northerners believed that the United States was one nation that could not be separated or divided. Most Southerners believed that states had freely created and joined the union and could freely leave it. Following Lincoln's election, the southern states seceded from the Union.

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