Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the election of 1860 increased sectional tensions of the United States by lifting pro-union, anti-slavery statesman, Abraham Lincoln into the Presidency. In reaction, the Southern States protested in many ways, but in no more dramatic way than, one by one, seceding.
C. McColloch v. Maryland The Supreme Court ruled that the bank was both constitutional and that as an agent of the federal government it could not be taxed
