The Mexican-American didn’t make the civil war inevitable because the main issue was about slavery. During that time, the American was split into two groups, the south was pro-slavery and the north were anti-slavery, and should the new territories should be a free state or a slave state. There were events that set in motions of the civil war.
There were events that led to the civil war, that cause problems in the United States. The first event was of course the Mexican-American war. The Mexican-American happens when the United States though they had a manifest destiny to spear across the continent to the Pacific Ocean, and the Mexican government was encouraging border raids, and warning that attempt to annexation would lead to a war. The United States
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The second event that happens was the fugitive slave act; this law was passed as part of the compromise of 1850. The federal officials was forced to arrest any runaway slaves; if failure to do so, they were libel to pay a fine, this was the part that the south wanted to control the slaves, and force slavery on everybody. These events were important part that put the civil war in motion. The main part of the civil war was on the issue of slavery. The north was anti-slavery, and the south was pro-slavery. The south was depended on slavery as a part of their lives, and social standings. The north didn’t to expand slavery, but not willing to ban slavery altogether because the north just want the south to have slavery, but have slavery in the north. There were tension between the north, and the south over should be banned because a lot of people were split over the slavery issue. The south wanted parts of the new territory, so they can move there with their slaves. There were laws made, so the south can controlled their slaves, and bring back their runaway slaves back. The Mexicans-American play a part of the civil war because the south and the north wanted to have a part of the land that