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TakenusernameA on scored.co
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It was about tariffs, the south wasnt happy the north was taxing their exports, which were their main source of income since they werent industrialized. Lincoln hoped to start a slave revolt, which is why he issued the emancipation proclamation, but since the south was technically a separate country at the time, it meant literally nothing unless the north took a territory, and it didnt apply to the slave states in the north.