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Slavery and State Rights - What Caused the Civil War?

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This lecture examines five explanations for Southern secession in 1861—slavery, fear, Southern nationalism, agrarian society, and honor—and introduces major historical interpretations of the Civil War from Rhodes to the Beards.

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- Chapter 1. Introduction: Jefferson Davis's Defense of Secession
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- Chapter 2. Fear? Southern Unity? Why Did the South Seceded
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- Chapter 3. Agrarian Society? Honor? Why the South Seceded, Continued
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- Chapter 4. Historiography of the Civil War, from Rhodes to Beard
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- Chapter 5. Conclusion
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