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The US Civil War

History 102 with WhatifAltHist's Rudyard Lynch and Austin Padgett

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The Struggles for Territorial Control Reflect Slavery's Influence

The South aimed to expand its territory significantly, aspiring to control regions like Nicaragua, Mexico, and Cuba, to enhance the institution of slavery where it thrived in tropical climates. William Walker's takeover of Nicaragua symbolizes this ambition, leading to intervention by American business interests like William Vanderbilt, which highlights the conflicting goals of southern expansionists and northern abolitionists. This struggle exemplifies a broader pattern in which potential annexations in Mexico and Central America were halted by the North to prevent the proliferation of slave states, showcasing the complex and dysfunctional relationship between northern and southern states regarding territorial ambitions and the issue of slavery.

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