Title: In what way did the Mexican-American War lead to the Civil War? - Quora
Headings: In what way did the Mexican-American War lead to the Civil War?
In what way did the Mexican-American War lead to the Civil War?
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Content: There was really no deeper connection. The issue that started the Civil War was the State of South Carolina firing on the flag of the United States. Several of the southern, slaveholding states had left the Union because they felt that Lincoln would not respect their “rights” to own and trade in human flesh. But in Charleston, SC, the United States would not give up its property. South Carolina and many commentators since have claimed that when SC left the Union the manmade island in the middle of Charleston Harbor “reverted” to the control of South Carolina, which the United States disputed. Impatient for an end to the impasse, South Carolina reverted to force. That the 1846–48 conflict between Mexico and the United States was fifteen years before is coincidental. Though The South (TM) championed the conflict with Mexico in hoping for annexation of more potential slave territory (even though Mexico had abolished slavery), the Mexican war really had no connections—politically or otherwise—with the Civil War. Sponsored by Pure Flix
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