Causes of the Civil War
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- ABOLITION
- COMPROMISE
- DRED SCOTT
- FORT SUMTER
- PLANTATION
- SECESSION
- SECTIONALISM
- SLAVERY
- STATES RIGHTS
- TARIFF
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Decades of sectionalism pitted plantation slavery against a growing abolition movement, while tariff disputes and states' rights arguments hardened the divide. The Dred Scott ruling wrecked one compromise after another, and secession finally became war at Fort Sumter.
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