I don't know exactly what your looking for but, it could do with religion or different ideas of the country.
For example: Let's say that America goes to war with Russia and the Americans didn't want to go to war. The people have a differed idea from the government, meaning that the military does not have the peoples support.
Hope it helps!
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What I heard was that people in the science laboratory in china "accidently" let loose a virus that they were studying, which also led to that person in contact with it to go out and spread it without knowing. Causing the virus to spread across all the world within a few months.
That is my explanation! \_(ツ)_/
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He feared retaliation from the border states, which supported slavery.
They had successfully organized workers into unions.