Answer:
The election of abe lincoln caused the southerners to believe he would take slavery away, resulting in them seceding from the U.S. starting the civil war
<span>The Plymouth Colony, established on the shores of Cape Cod Bay in 1620, set up a competing trading post at Penobscot Bay in the 1620s. The territory between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers was first called the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason.</span>
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state so the number of free states and slave states could be equal
