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Secession by the South was a reaction to Lincolns' high tax policy. To help pay cost of the way Lincoln push through the first Income Tax in the United States. There was no challenge to the constitutionality of the tax because the country was at war.
Former IRS Historian Shelly Davis describes; "Our present day Income Tax is one lasting legacies of Civil War.