Traces the causes of the Civil War, including the abolitionist movement, debates between the North and the South over slavery, the economic roots of the slave system, political divisions between free and slave states, and the Dred Scott decision. [14:42]

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abolitionists, slave resistance, slavery, causes of the civil war, civil war, dred scott, john brown

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abolition, free state, slave economy, slave state, slave system

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