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The slave owners also argued that banning slavery in new states would upset what they saw as a delicate balance of free states and slave states They feared that ending this balance could lead to the domination of the federal government by the northern free states This led seven southern states to secede from the Union When the southern forces attacked a US Army installation at Fort Sumter the American Civil War began and four additional slave states seceded Northern leaders had viewed the slavery interests as a threat politically but with secession they viewed the prospect of a new Southern nation the Confederate States of America with control over the Mississippi River and parts of the West as politically unacceptable. . .

. Stephen Johnson Field March 6 1863 March 10 1863 Stephen Johnson Field March 6 1863 March 10 1863. . The enormous complex of defenses that protected Washington D.C. in 1865! . . Republicanism General Clinton sent Benedict Arnold to Virginia now a British Brigadier General with 1,700 troops to capture Portsmouth and to spread terror from there; Washington responded by sending Lafayette south to counter Arnold's efforts. Washington initially hoped to bring the fight to New York drawing off British forces from Virginia and ending the war there but Rochambeau advised Grasse that Cornwallis in Virginia was the better target Grasse's fleet arrived off the Virginia coast and Washington saw the advantage He made a feint towards Clinton in New York then headed south to Virginia!