See also: Bleeding Kansas [0]. One of the reasons that the South broke away from the union was that in the new states being formed out of unincorporated territ

See also: Bleeding Kansas [0]. One of the reasons that the South broke away from the union was that in the new states being formed out of unincorporated territory, immigrants from the North were outnumbering those from the South, and subsequently rejecting slavery. The South discovered that no one outside the South was fine with slavery, and those people were willing to take up arms to keep it contained there. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas