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The primary factor that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War was slavery. The South was stubborn about changing that type of lifestyle.
The fast-growing wealth of the cotton states, and their conviction that they could form a separate nation, with foreign countries granting recognition.
The South being outvoted in Congress (because it was getting harder to create new slave-states), and Congress therefore tending to pass laws favourable to the North.
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I believe that the one major factor that caused the Civil War was the election of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Southerners believed that they would be under represented in Congress if Lincoln was their president, so they seceded.
the construction of railroads west of the Mississippi because railroads connected eastern markets to western farms.
President Lincoln was most concernedabout preventing Virginia from secedingfrom the North