Causes of the Civil War the differences between the North and South / [electronic resource] :
Shane Mountjoy ; consulting ed. Tim McNeese
- New York : Chelsea House Pub., c2009
- 1 online resource (136 p.) : ill. (some col.)
- Civil War : a nation divided .
- Civil War : a nation divided .
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index
One nation, two sections -- American slavery -- Nullification and states' rights -- Manifest Destiny -- Bleeding Kansas -- Dred Scott and John Brown -- The Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln -- Secession and the coming war
Examines the sectional rivalries that surfaced in the early 19th century and intensified in the decades leading up to the war