The Conflict Of The American Civil War Essay
Territorial expansion in the antebellum years opened the possibility of slavery’s extension to new parts of the country. With Manifest Destiny, the Mexican American War and the Louisiana Purchase, the country questioned whether or not the new territories would enter the union as free states. Before the Mexican-American War, the Missouri Compromise had established a working balance of free and slave states and defined a geographic line across the Louisiana Purchase to determine future decisions. The slavery debate became “heated” because once a state became a free or slave state it received voting rights meaning it further put one party ahead of the other. It also created economic issues because much of the economy was based on slavery due to the South doing more on…