The US had many attempts at compromise with varying levels of sucess before the Civil War. However, when Lincoln was elected president (on the platform of stopping the expansion of slavery), the South lost hope and seceded.
There is always a solution other than war, however, in this case, war had been a looming possibility for quite some time, and compromise probably would've only pushed the war back a year or two.
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Answer: the slavery in the United States increased so then abram licion became president he began the war to free slaves
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C, D, and E were the main 3 reasons the colonists had.