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.

Notes

• {{note|1}} William V. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina (1966), is a narrative account of the crisis. A broader study is Charles S. Syndor, The Development of Southern Sectionalism 1819-1848 (1948). Merrill D. Peterson, Olive Branch and the Sword: The Compromise of 1833 (1983), examines the resolution of the crisis.
• {{note|2}} North, Douglas C., The Economic Growth of the United States 1790-1860. Englewood Cliffs, 1961. p. 130.
• {{note|3}} Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Beacon Press, 1966. p. 117.
• {{note|4}} Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. p. 328.
• {{note|5}} Donald, David; Randal, J.G., The Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: D.C. Health and Company, 1961. p. 79.
• {{note|6}} Allan, Nevins. Ordeal of the Union (4 vols.: New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947.), III. p. 218.
• {{note|7}} Moore, Barrington. p. 122.