About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: John Brown, Kansas-Nebraska Act, David Rice Atchison, Lawrence, Kansas, Henry Ward Beecher, Olathe, Kansas, Origins of the American Civil War, 4th Cavalry Regiment, Stephen A. Douglas, James G. Birney, William Quantrill, Jayhawker, Knights of the Golden Circle, Nathaniel Lyon, Thomas Ewing, Jr., Quantrill's Raiders, William S. Harney, Bushwhacker, James W. Denver, New England Emigrant Aid Company, Silas Soule, George W. L. Bickley, Pottawatomie Massacre, James Henry Lane, Joseph O. Shelby, The Slave Power, Andrew Butler, Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, Sacking of Lawrence, Border Ruffian, Battle of Black Jack, Amos Adams Lawrence, Lecompton Constitution, John Ritchie, Eli Thayer, Topeka Constitution, Caleb S. Pratt, Vinland, Kansas, Indian cavalry, Wyandotte Constitution, Henry Washington Younger, Edward Daniels, Secret Six, Charles W. Dow, John Allen Wakefield, Free-Stater, Mahaffie House, Wakarusa War, Battle of Osawatomie, Mount Oread, Pottawatomie Rifles, John Noland, Marais des Cygnes massacre, August Bondi, Leavenworth Constitution, Beecher's Bibles, Thomas Barber. Excerpt: The main explanation for the origins of the American Civil War is slavery, especially Southern anger at the attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Southern slave owners held that such a restriction on slavery would violate the principle of states' rights. In 1860, the election of Abraham Lincoln, who won the national election without receiving a single electoral vote from any of the Southern states, triggered declarations of secession from the United States by slave states of the Deep South, and their formation of the Confederate States of America. Nationalists (in the North and elsewhere) refused to recognize secession, nor did any foreign government. War began in A...
