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What led the southern states to secede from the union in 1860 and 1861?

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NORTH VERSUS SOUTH

Step-by-step explanation:

By 1860, Southern politics was dominated by the idea of states' rights in the context of slavery to support the South's agricultural economy, and slave-heavy, cotton-producing agricultural states embraced secession as the solution

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