History,Causes of the Civil War,The Market Revolution, North/South Development, States’ Rights, Morality of Slavery (Abolition), Economics of Slavery, Politics of Slavery, Mexican War and geographic growth of US, the Republican Party]

Prioritize and explain the two most important causes of the Civil War from the colonial period to 1861.
Your answer should not be a list of causes. Rather it should provide a convincing explanation of why
each causal factor mattered. 
[Choose from the list of eight that we’ve been discussing in class: 
The Market Revolution, North/South Development, States’ Rights, Morality of Slavery (Abolition),
Economics of Slavery, Politics of Slavery, Mexican War and geographic growth of US, the Republican
Party]