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The Coming of the Civil War		 Biography of America logo
Simmering differences ignite an all-out crisis in the 1850s. A succession of incidents, from
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From the Mexican War to the Civil War.

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Free states and slave states, before the Civil War.

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Slavery in America was anything but a stagnant institution. It spread in certain areas while disappearing or constricting in others. No issue was more volatile than the literal place of slavery in the nation. On the eve of the Civil War, there were 19 free states and 15 slave states. By June 1861, eleven of those slave states would come together to constitute the Confederacy.

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