Title: In what way did the Mexican-American War lead to the Civil War? - Quora
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In what way did the Mexican-American War lead to the Civil War?
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Content: As it happens, Lincoln won electoral votes only in the North and on the Pacific Coast. ( He won California by about 700 votes.) But this was enough to put him in the White House, since the Democratic Party split in 1860 and ran two candidates (one from the North and one from the South). Southern political leaders saw this as the political handwriting on the wall and decided that Secession was the only course that could guarantee the continuation of slavery (the largest capital investment in the United States at the time and the engine that drove the South’s economy). Grant stated that the Mexican-American War was the cause of the Civil War in his autobiography, and he was right. The introduction of a swarm of new potential states raised the tension between North and South enormously and brought the crisis on quickly. John Beatty
, US Army 1973-2001; MA Military History; author
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