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Before the Mexican-American War began, Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted that the United States would conquer Mexico but be harmed by the conquest, comparing it to swallowing arsenic. That prediction proved prophetic as the territories gained in the war revived the slavery issue, which had remained relatively dormant since the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Through the 1850s, slavery became the dominant issue dividing the nation, poisoning relations between North and South and leading to a miserable, ruinous civil war.
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Gonzales, Louisiana · United States
