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The Civil War was the bloodiest, most violent war in all of America's history. It pitted
brother against brother and father against son and caused more deaths than all of America's
wars before or since combined. The cause for the Civil War was not any single event or action,
but a combonation of many events and actions. It was a sort of snowball effect, but this
snowball had a rock in the center - slavery. Slavery was probably the largest single contributor
to the feelings of violence and hatred between the North and South. The other events that led
to the civil war are what really drove people over the edge, and some were more influential
than others.
The first of these was the Compromise of 1850. As a result of the United State's victory
in the Mexican War, it had acquired a vast territory. At the time, California was applying for
statehood, which proposed a grave problem to the government: keeping the balance of Slave and
Free states. Also coming into play......

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