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Which of These Contributed to Growing Regional Tensions Over Slavery

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Which of these contributed to growing regional tensions over slavery in the United States in the 1840s and 1850s?


Definitions:

Causal Attribution

The process by which individuals determine the causes of events or behaviors, attributing them to internal dispositions or external situations.

Stable Internal

A belief that the cause of an event is due to stable, enduring factors within an individual.

Availability Heuristic

The tendency to assume that information that comes easily to mind (or is readily available) is more frequent or common.

Locus Of Causality

The position or place within an individual that determines where the cause of behavior is perceived to originate, whether internally (within oneself) or externally (outside factors).

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