This video briefly explains the lead-up to the Civil War and how slavery was the driving force.

SOURCES:
1. Allen C. Guelzo, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 80-81.
2. Ibid, 80-81.
3. Robert E. May, Slavery, Race and Conquest in the Tropics Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 119-121.
4. Ibid, 121.
5. Ibid,125-126.
6. Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Stevens, December 22, 1860, from Ibid, 215.
7. “The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States,” American Battlefield Trust, [ Ссылка ].
8. Alabama Legislature, “Alabama Ordinance of Secession,” eHISTORY, [ Ссылка ].
9. Florida Legislature, “5th FL Secession Document,” Florida declaration, [ Ссылка ].
10. John C. McGehee to Florida Convention, “Florida Secession (U.S. National Park Service),” National Parks Service, [ Ссылка ].
11. Cornerstone Speech by Alexander Stephens, March 21, 1861, from Kenneth M. STAMP, The Causes of the Civil War (Touchstone, 1991), 152.
12. James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander In Chief (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), 18-22.
13. “The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States,” American Battlefield Trust [ Ссылка ].
14. James M. McPherson, The Oxford History of the United States, Volume VI: Battle Cry of Freedom; the Civil War Era (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988), 283.
15. Jefferson Davis to Confederate Congress, April 29, 1861, from Stamp Causes of the Civil War, 153-155.
16. Ibid, 47, 66.
17. Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement (New York: Sentinel, 2019), 322.

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