Daniel Webster said of slavery that, "it will be found, sir, that there was no great diversity of opinion between the North and the South upon the subject of slavery; and it will be found that both parts of the country held it equally an evil- a moral and political evil"(Webster 249). ... This law was key because now the United States had officially recognized that the spread of slavery needed to stop. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually...

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