![]() ![]() One observer noted astutely that the two factions each wielded one side of “a pair of shears, neither of which could cut until joined together.” But with each side pulling its blade, the shears threatened Of the newly acquired southwest was too arid for plantation slavery, nothing could still the contest between those who would prohibit it there and those who would protect it. In 18, as fighting took place in Mexico, a war of words raged in Washington - and it did not cease when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended military hostilities in early 1848. Free soil advocates demanded that any lands seized from Mexico be declared off limits to slavery.īut many white Southerners insisted they should have the right to take slaves wherever they pleased. all of today’s California, Nevada and Utah, most of Arizona, plus parts of three other future states. An enormous region was about to come under America control War between the United States and Mexico created the angry irritant that ultimately tore the Union apart - the question of slavery in the territories. Have made Americans more distrustful of one another, and placed the country on the high road toward civil war? Was this merely a coincidence? Or could the telegraph somehow ![]() ![]() Yet the acute phase of North-South sectionalism coincided with the arrival of the telegraph, which rocketed information ahead at speeds that seemed miraculous. ![]()
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