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Pretty much as it says on the tin. The slavery issue was threatening to drive a deep, deep wedge between the North and the South, and the South did almost secede several times. Luckily, both Presidents Cass and Crittenden managed to make compromises that angered no one that much (although neither side was happy with them), and the Union managed to ride out the storm, but what if we had not been so fortunate?
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