What led the United States into civil war in 1861? In this premiere episode of Kings and Generals’ American Civil War series, ...

The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order. In September, the board's Democrats proposed listing ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Civil War lessons taught to American ... are now asked to identify the causes of the war, “including sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery.” Eighth-graders also ...

Standards previously adopted in 2010 were designed to play up the role of states’ rights and sectionalism and downplay slavery as the reason Texas entered the Civil War on the side of the ...

And when it comes to the Civil War, children are supposed to learn that the conflict was caused by “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery” — written deliberately in that order to ...