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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No the Mexican American war had little to do with the Civil war. The civil war was primarily economic, and slavery was a major economic concern. The North forced the South to sell it’s products to the North. The failure of the South to develop competing industry was crippling it’s economy and the inability to sell cotton and other goods to England or other nations further crushed the economy. Slaves were seen as a necessary evil by the South despite the fact that slavery was made obsolete by the cotton gin and growing opposition to slavery in the South. However slaves were believed to be essential to the economy and thus to the states. Thus many who opposed slavery fought to uphold it. Remember, most Americans at the time had more loyalty to their state than the US itself. The civil war changed this, but at the start of the war, especially in the South, people were state first, nation second. So protecting the economic interests of their state was important.