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How did the North and South disagree on whether slavery should be allowed in the new states admitted to the Union from the new territories west of the Mississippi River?

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States' Rights refers To the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power. In the Civil War era, this struggle focused heavily on the institution of slavery and whether the federal government had the right to regulate or even abolish slavery within an individual state.

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