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: To a lessor extent the war was also about the growing Federalism that was driven by Northern states. The Confederate Constitution made sure to address some of those grievances. The only roles that Mexican American war played in the Civil war was to heat up the argument about what states would be slave or free states and that the Mexican American war was unpopular in the South. It was seen as Federal overreach. War was declared without popular support. 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.