The institution of slavery was the largest factor in helping to spark the Civil War. The institution of slavery and its existence has caused significant problems between Northerners and Southerners, especially as the United States grew. Fighting over whether or not new territories/states would have slavery caused a serious of failed compromises like the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This continually fighting over slavery and its existence was what sparked the state of South Carolina to secede from the Union after the election of president Abraham Lincoln.
The invention from Song, China that had the greatest influence on the spread of learning was paper and printing. This helped to get the public interested in reading.
It was most directly shapes by trans-Atlantic exchanges. It is the American South in Europe—Europe in the American South is a volume of expositions that endeavors an investigation of the American South as far as its social exchanges with Europe.
