1. America and the Civil War
... compromises."11 Southerners understood to remain politically part of America there would be no other option but expanding. Out of the tensions and failures to compromise the Republican Party was born. Historians have long considered the presidential election of 1860 as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War. The Republican Party was formed out of the great political ... ...
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