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Causes of the Civil War: Bleeding Kansas. Proposed by Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois, the Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially repealed the line imposed by the Missouri Compromise. Douglas, an ardent believer in grassroots democracy, felt that all the territories should be subject to popular sovereignty.
The Civil War was not entirely caused by Lincolnâs election, but the election was one of the primary reasons the war broke out the following year. Lincolnâs decision to fight rather than to let the Southern states secede was not based on his feelings towards slavery. Rather, he felt it was his sacred duty as President of the United States to preserve the Union at all costs.