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.
They basically wanted freedom so they escaped to the north where slavery was illegal
<span>According to Thomas Gage's spies, in which town had the minutemen been collecting a large amount of arms?</span>
