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The Commerce Act forbade discrimination against smaller markets, and since they were a part of smaller markets, this favored the farmers. Farmers were also able to transport their produce at reasonable rates.
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Allowed the enforcement of proibition as determined under the 18th amendement
The event that caused the Southern states to secede was the election of Abraham Lincoln as the President of the United States. Many maintain that the primary cause of the war was the Southern states’ desire to preserve the institution of slavery.