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There were four months between the first Southern state seceding and the outbreak of the Civil War. What did the average Northerner think about these secessions at this time? Would they have felt that it would lead to war, or just end up as a (relatively) minor event like the Nullification Crisis?

by /u/derstherower in /r/AskHistorians

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