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Excerpt from The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War: Its Causes, Origin, Conduct and Results; Embracing Full and Authentic Accounts of Its Battles by Land and Sea
Enlargement of the Territory of the United States by Mexican Campaigns - Resulting Prosperity to the entire Union - The Aim and Object of this History - The Causes of the Wan - State Rights - The Tariff and Slavery. - Diverging Interests of North and South - Effect of the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies on American Sentiment - The Missouri Compromise - The Fugitive Slave Bin - Repeal of the Missouri Compromise - Formation of the Republican Party - Kansas Struggle - Triumph of the anti-slavery Party. The Campaign of l856. - Buchanan elected President - The kansas-nebraska Struggle. - Buchanan's Unfor tunate Administration. - The Dred Scott Decision - The John Brown Raid. - The Sale of Arms to the South. Secession and Organization of the confederacy.-election and Inauguration of President Lincoln. - His Address -the Firing upon Fort Sumter.
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