 |
Section size for Origins of the American Civil War (65 sections)
| Section name |
Byte
count |
Section
total
|
| (Top) |
7,450 |
7,450
|
| Geography and demographics |
5,476 |
5,476
|
| Historical tensions and compromises |
41 |
64,650
|
| Early Republic |
4,470 |
4,470
|
| Missouri Compromise |
3,078 |
3,078
|
| Nullification crisis |
7,408 |
7,408
|
| Gag Rule debates |
3,052 |
3,052
|
| Antebellum South and the Union |
521 |
18,519
|
| Southern culture |
9,636 |
9,636
|
| Militant defense of slavery |
953 |
953
|
| Abolitionism |
3,570 |
3,570
|
| Southern fears of modernization |
3,839 |
3,839
|
| Sectional tensions and the emergence of mass politics |
2,721 |
2,721
|
| Economics |
1,522 |
9,096
|
| Economic value of slavery to the South |
2,581 |
2,581
|
| Regional economic differences |
3,379 |
3,379
|
| Free labor vs. pro-slavery arguments |
1,614 |
1,614
|
| Religious conflict over the slavery question |
8,274 |
8,274
|
| The territorial crisis and the United States Constitution |
7,991 |
7,991
|
| Abolitionism |
6,168 |
10,429
|
| Arguments for and against slavery |
2,528 |
2,528
|
| "Free soil" movement |
1,733 |
1,733
|
| Slavery question in territories acquired from Mexico |
5,224 |
5,224
|
| States' rights |
1,003 |
11,075
|
| States' rights and slavery |
3,706 |
3,706
|
| States' rights and minority rights |
6,366 |
6,366
|
| Compromise of 1850 |
1,102 |
1,529
|
| Fugitive Slave Law issues |
427 |
427
|
| Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) |
1,786 |
1,786
|
| Fragmentation of the American party system |
48 |
24,308
|
| Founding of the Republican Party (1854) |
5,140 |
5,140
|
| "Bleeding Kansas" and the elections of 1856 |
5,277 |
5,277
|
| Dred Scott decision (1857) and the Lecompton Constitution |
4,832 |
4,832
|
| Buchanan, Republicans and anti-administration Democrats |
4,509 |
4,509
|
| Honor |
1,580 |
4,502
|
| Assault on Sumner (1856) |
2,922 |
2,922
|
| Emergence of Lincoln |
113 |
31,875
|
| Republican Party structure |
6,761 |
6,761
|
| Sectional battles over federal policy in the late 1850s |
63 |
9,607
|
| Lincoln–Douglas Debates |
1,665 |
1,665
|
| Background |
1,512 |
1,512
|
| Panic of 1857 and sectional realignments |
2,051 |
2,051
|
| Southern response |
4,316 |
4,316
|
| John Brown and Harpers Ferry (1859) |
2,713 |
2,713
|
| Elections of 1860 |
2,295 |
3,314
|
| Result and impact of the election of 1860 |
1,019 |
1,019
|
| Split in the Democratic Party |
2,891 |
2,891
|
| Southern secession |
3,119 |
3,119
|
| Other issues |
3,357 |
3,357
|
| Fort Sumter |
2,893 |
2,893
|
| Historiographical debates on causes |
941 |
7,849
|
| Needless war argument |
1,175 |
1,175
|
| Irrepressible conflict argument |
1,204 |
1,204
|
| Revisionists |
4,529 |
4,529
|
| See also |
177 |
177
|
| Notes |
28 |
28
|
| References |
3,032 |
3,032
|
| Further reading |
20 |
11,926
|
| Primary sources |
999 |
999
|
| Historiography |
3,268 |
3,268
|
| "Needless war" school |
2,098 |
2,098
|
| Economic causation and modernization |
1,025 |
1,025
|
| Nationalism and culture |
927 |
927
|
| Slavery as cause |
3,589 |
3,589
|
| External links |
1,282 |
1,282
|
| Total |
190,989 |
190,989
|
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