Causes of the Civil War

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A cotton field bordered by a wooden fence stretches toward a distant rail line.
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  • ABOLITION
  • COMPROMISE
  • DRED SCOTT
  • FORT SUMTER
  • PLANTATION
  • SECESSION
  • SECTIONALISM
  • SLAVERY
  • STATES RIGHTS
  • TARIFF

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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