Identify what Karl Marx claimed were the motivations behind the following issues connected with the U.S. Civil War in his 1861 article on "The North AmericanCivil War":
Why poor southern whites supported slavery and slave holders despite not owningslaves themselves.
The connection between the interests of slave-holders and the U.S. government'sforeign policy of conquests and occupations in North America (Texas, theMexican Cession, Florida) during the 19th century
Why the slaver-holder class of the South decided to launch its rebellion againstthe Union in 1860-61
How the southern slaver-holder class succeed in forcing the free states of theNorth to accept slavery over ever-greater parts of the U.S. and its territoriesbefore 1860.