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 Posted: Thu May 12th, 2011 02:28 am
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 Looking at the major news-making and political issues of the 1850s reveals the causes of the war (in no particular order):
Kansas-Nebraska Act
bleeding Kansas
caning of Charles Sumner
publication of Uncle Toms Cabin
Dred Scott decision
John Browns raid
Lincoln-Douglas debates