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Cleobulus

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Fri Apr-09-10 09:26 AM
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16. Of course there were other issues, most of them related to the slave economy...

of the south. The biggest instigator of the war, however, was the institution of slavery itself, and more importantly, what the southern states wanted, a continued expansion of it westward. They were, to being marginalized in the House and Senate with the expansion of free states, and they wanted to preserve their voting power in Congress, mostly so they can continue to preserve slavery as an institution.

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