Origins of the American Civil War

The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of slavery, expansionism, sectionalism, and political party politics of the Antebellum Period.

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Slavery - Expansionism - Sectionalism - Political party - Politics - Antebellum

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As U.S. territorial expansion forced the United States to confront the question of whether new areas of settlement were to be "slave states" or "free states", the power of the slaveholders in national politics waned. As the North and the South developed starkly divergent economies and societies, the divisive issues of sectionalism catapulted the United States into the Civil War (1861-1865).

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U.S. territorial expansion - United States - Economies - Societies - Civil War - 1861 - 1865

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