Mr. Klaff has written around 200 songs - many of which are history songs. Here are the just some of the songs you have sung in class. Some of the songs are available for downloading - so you can cruise down Port Blvd with the top down, screaming out the lyrics to "Causes of the Civil War."

(Remember - songs and lyrics are ALL copyrighted!!!)

The Causes of The Civil War

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Note: This song has a similar beat to the Reconstruction song. That's because Civil War and Reconstruction go hand in hand!

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Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Sumner

After Jackson’s election, People prided by their section.
North had industry wanted a bank. South had cotton, and had slavery to thank.

Tariff of Abominations, Abolition Frustrations. Differences were a lot, even decades before Dred Scott.

Chorus: These are the causes of the Civil War. Causes of the Civil War.

Weak Presidents like Tippacanoe, Van Buren and Tyler too. Fillmore and Pierce, were nothing big, Zachary Taylor was a Whig.

Polk showed a bit more might, went 54 40 or fight, but things would get out of hand, with all that Mexican land.

These are the causes of the Civil War. Causes of the Civil War.

So we signed a war-treaty, continued manifest destiny. Let’s compromise you and me. Should these states be slave or free?

Compromise of 1820, compromise of 1850, but even Henry Clay, he couldn’t save the day.

These are the causes of the Civil War. Causes of the Civil War.

Popular Sovereignty, still Kansas it would bleed. Voters fought through every town, a martyr was born with John Brown.

Harpers Ferry, Brown’s body they would bury. Turmoil would go on, and peak with Uncle Tom.

These are the causes of the Civil War. Causes of the Civil War.

By 1860, things get worse. Tensions are about to burst. Lincoln ran for the Pres. He won, but here’s what the South said.

We’ll teach the North a lesson, we’re gonna start secession. In April of 61, on Fort Sumter they fired their guns.

These are the causes of the Civil War. Causes of the Civil War. Causes of the Civil War. These are the causes.