While many still debate the causes of the Civil War, author James McPherson said that, "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won the election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small, squabbling countries."
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Federalism in the idea of the power being shared between the national and state level. checks and balances to keep the government from becoming tyrannical.
Deborah Sampson, was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
What best describes the Tokugawa Shogunate is c) a dynasty created after Leyasu defeated rival warlords and closed Japan's borders to foreign trade. The Tokugawa Shogunate is defined as "the last feudal Japanese military government which existed between 1603 and 1868."
