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Political opponents of President John Adams opposed the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 because it stripped American citizens of the right to free speech, which blatantly violated the Constitution.
The event that triggered war came at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay on April 12, 1861 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.
Answer: They both saw it as new territory
Explanation: The south saw it as new and to have more slaves in while the north saw it as a land for free black slaves