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What were the key causes of the American Civil War?
What were the key causes of the American Civil War?
trmichaels
3/25/09
What were the key causes of the American Civil War?
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swartzy
3/25/09
The debate about abolition had been brewing across the country for some time when the Civil War broke out. Today many people feel that division over slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
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damian
3/25/09
Some scholars feel that slavery would have died a natural death due to advances in technology that later made much human labor redundant.
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Atherant
3/25/09
The Civil War broke out because the succeeding states wanted to preserve their sovereign states' rights.
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