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A 5 page discussion of the concerns over state verses federal control that ultimately led the southern states to succeed from the Union. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Civil War to the issue of slavery alone, in actuality there were a considerable number of issues that brought about this war. In the decades leading up to the
wars outbreak the southern states had become more and more suspicious of the northern states intentions in terms of interceding in what were regarded as southern affairs. The northern
states had their own paranoias as well, however. Some believed that the southern states were involved in a conspiracy to destroy northern liberty. The intent of this paper
is to explore the reasoning behind these beliefs, to delineate specific events relating to them, and to evaluate what was actually occurring in terms of the delicate balance that existed
between state liberty and federalism that ultimately led the states into war. The years leading up to the Civil War were a
time of considerable tension between the northern and southern states. These tensions can actually be traced back to the early 1800s and the request from Missouri that she be
admitted to the Union. This request was made in 1817. Because Missouri was a slave state, the question over her admittance was a critical one. At the
time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and those that denounced it. If Missouri was admitted, the balance would be disrupted and slave states
would become the majority in the young republic. It is important to point out when discussing these types of issues
that in reality resistance to efforts to abolish slavery existed to one degree or another in both the North and the South (Moore, 1993). Slavery, after all, was a
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