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: It was not fighting Mexico that was the problem,it was the way the war was conducted that was. Ironically a disproportionate number of Southerners served as the soldiers in that war. Quora User
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Originally Answered: Was the Civil War caused by the US victory in the Mexican-American war? No, but it served to increase the distance between the respective positions of North & South. The annexation of Texas and later the territories taken from Mexico meant a complete change in the previous free/slave equilibrium in Congress. The situation was so delicate that the Civil War could very well have started in 1850, but the Compromise of that year averted war. But, even if war was averted by the time being, it only dragged the issue until the next crisis, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. From then on, the political tension only worsened until the election of Lincoln in 1860. ::