6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
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7. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55
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3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology
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11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
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1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical
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2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
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9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
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25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"
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