The Cynical Historian

What caused the American Civil War? (2016x3)

Air date: Feb 02, 2016

2:00 - it was not a declaration of war, but funding Lincoln's declaration of insurrection In recent debates, there has been a lot of controversy over the causation of the Civil War in the US. It's mostly due to political farce, but there is a real problem, historically, with trying to define the exact causation of the Civil War. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/cz1i5ncOVIs related: https://youtu.be/c1TeVr_GU8I ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Alan Axelrod, America’s Wars (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2002), 246-301. https://amzn.to/2NHcLOa America at War: The Macmillan Compendium (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 219-266. https://amzn.to/2uaLkEd Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty! An American History, vol.2, 2nd ed. (2005; New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 6441-519. https://amzn.to/2mPJlB Thomas Bender, A Nation among Nations: America’s Place in World History (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006), 116-181. https://amzn.to/2Ldvl2G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crittenden_Compromise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Conference_of_1861 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)#Founding_and_19th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont#Republican_presidential_candidate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism_(negationism)#Confederate_revisionism ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88