Irrepressible Conflict: the Cause of the American Civil War

The Civil War resulted from the insistence of Southern firebrands that the 1820 restrictions on where slavery could be practiced in the Western territories of the USA be removed. And the dogged determination of some Northerners to restrict the brutal treatment of blacks and finally put slavery on the road to extinction. In the 1850s big shoes dropped one after another in staccato fashion to dash s...