The Causes of the Civil War: The Political, Cultural, Economic and Territorial Disputes between North and SouthWhile South Carolina's preemptive strike on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's subsequent call to arms started the Civil War, South Carolina's secession and Lincoln's military actions were simply the last in a chain of events stretching as far back as the early 1750s. Increasing moral conflicts and political debates over slavery--exacerbated by the inequities inherent between an established agricultural society and a growing industrial one--led to a fierce sectionalism which manifested itself through cultural, economic, political and territorial disputes. This historical study reduces sectionalism to its most fundamental form, examining the underlying source of this antagonistic climate. From protective tariffs to the expansionist agenda, it illustrates the ways in which the foremost issues of the time influenced relations between the North and the South. |
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... American Civil War? If a southerner in ¡86¡ was asked that question, the most obvious answer may have been Lincoln's decision to invade the South with Union troops and to blockade southern ports with Union warships. As a consequence, he ...
... American history. Following the Portuguese and Spanish occupation of the Caribbean, a thriving trans–Atlantic slave trade developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries primarily designed to import human laborers to work as ...
... American slave market,like those established in Philadelphia, Charleston, Richmond, and New Orleans, the captive Africans were unloaded, washed, shaved and rubbed down with an oil to cover bruises caused by the long voyage across the ...
... American men equal; they were considered by most people as sub-human savages. Therefore, although this was the so-called age of enlightenment, in one sense our young nation was an unwitting victim of an unjust and less enlightened age ...
... American shores. It wasn't until ¡787 when the Constitutional Convention convened that the question of the African slave trade was taken up anew. Even though a number of the fifty- five delegates attending the four-month meeting were ...
Contents
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Economic Protectionism 1815 to 1828 | 31 |
Old Hickory Comes to Washington 1829 to 1832 | 53 |
The Bank War and Southern Nullification 1832 to 1834 | 76 |
The Turbulent Years 1834 to 1836 | 93 |
The Panic and SubTreasuries 1837 to 1840 | 106 |
A Time to Compromise 1847 to 1850 | 166 |
Sectional Politics 1850 to 1853 | 185 |
Filibusters 1849 to 1860 | 199 |
The KansasNebraska Act 1852 to 1854 | 207 |
Political Realignment 1854 to 1856 | 220 |
The Fight for Kansas 1854 to 1858 | 231 |
From Brown to Lincoln 856 to 860 | 248 |
The End of the Road 860 to 86 | 265 |
John Tyler and Texas Too 1840 to 1845 | 116 |
The Expansionist Agenda 1845 to 1846 | 135 |
Territorial Sectionalism 1846 to 1847 | 153 |
Chronology | 283 |
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