Causes:
There are thirty main causes of the Civil War:
- 1619 Arrival of Africans
- 1776 Declaration of Independence
- 1781 U.S. Constitution
- Compromise of 1820
- Sectionalism
- Election of 1828
- John C. Calhoun
- Nullification
- Tariff of Abomination
- Manifest Destiny
- Mexican War
- California Gold Rush
- Popular Sovereignty
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Law
- Webster-Haynes Debate
- Wilmot Proviso
- Cotton Gin
- Seventh of March Speech
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- Bleeding Kansas
- John Brown
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Underground Railroad
- Dred Scott
- Abolitionists
- Lincoln-Douglas Debate
- Steven A. Douglas
- Election of 1860
- Convention of Sucession