at any moment of history there are clusters of motivations and causes leading to events. read more
Abolition wasn’t the goal of the American Civil War. The causes for the civil war were because the Southern slave states realized that they were going to lose the majority in the government and that that would mean that their desire to create new slave states in the west would fail. read more
Their propounding of these goals distinguished abolitionists from the broad-based political opposition to slavery’s westward expansion that took form in the North after 1840 and raised issues leading to the Civil War. read more