Access to History: American Civil War: Causes, Course and Consequences, 1803-1877 4th Ed. Alan Farmer

This is the fourth edition of 'The American Civil War and its Origins 1848-–65', which has been revised and extended to fully cover the 2008 AS and A level specifications for OCR and Edexcel. The book begins by focusing on the westward expansion in America and the problems this caused. It then goes on to look at the rise of the Republican Party and the 1860 presidential election. The causes of the Civil War are traced, as well as the major conflicts during the War, and the conclusion is extended to look both at the Union victory, and the reconstruction period that followed.