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b'This podcast is going to be about the causes and effects of the civil war. The civil war occurred during slavery times. A civil war is a war between the people within the same nation state. There are many reasons for civil wars to occur but the main reason would be for independence. \\n The main conflict of the American civil war was slavery. The southern states were for slavery, while the northern states opposed slavery. This led to a campaign organized by Abraham Lincoln to end the expansion of slavery. The southerners needed slavery more than the northerners because the southerners were less industrialized. Being that the northerners wanted to take away slaves from the south, the south became very irritated. This caused tension between the states. \\nThis led to many acts concerning slavery such as the Missouri Comprise, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Kansas Nebraska Act. These three acts were compromises to bring together the north and the south. Unfortunately, they did not work. \\nConflicts concerning the civil rights movement were court cases concentrating on certain individuals such as the Dred Scott vs. Sanford case. This was a case where a man named Dred Scott lived in the north and thought he was free because the north was a free state but he was still considered to be a slave. Therefore, leading to the idea that slaves can never be citizens. This case didn\\u2019t help the slaves. \\nThen came the election of 1860, where Abraham Lincoln became president. This caused the southern to secede from the union and forced them to set up an independent government known as the Confederate States of America. This sense of sectionalism added more tension between the states, which was a major cause of the civil war. The south was defeated and many were killed but the war ended slavery and African Americans gained many rights due to the civil war.'