Causality of the American Civil War

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westward expansion

causality of civil war

ultimate causes:

> westward expansion

> US Senate balance

> Mexanc-Amer War

***sufficient cause ***

> slavery

> economic systems

> US Constitution

> tariff / central bank

> declaration of independence

> direct representation

> US international expansion

>> esp Pacific trade & >> caribbean (Span-Amer War)

proximate causes:

> compromise of 1850

>> breakdown of compromise of 1820

> railroad

indirect cuases

> transcendentalism

>> & other reform movements

> social pressures/ demographic change

>> immigration

<<< esp. v. free blacks

: "Instablity always leads to war" << owen smith