How did the Mexican war cause the Civil War?

Answer 1

With the Mexican War ending in 1848, there is no connection to that war and the US Civil War. It needs to be remembered that in 1803, the Louisiana Purchase, gave to the US New Orleans and a vast new amount of territory. So prior to the Mexican War, there were already new territories to cause conflicts.

Answer 2

The addition of a vast new territory re-opened the debate about whether it would end up slave or free, or some of each. The growing "free soil" movement opposed the addition of any new slave states; Southern states were concerned (especially now that the North had passed them in population and so had more representative in the House) with losing political power, which might undercut slavery and their whole way of life.

Answer 3

Because the vast new territories, including California, sparked-off a fierce debate about the admission of new slave-states, which the South was demanding in order to maintain its voting power in Congress.

For California to be admitted as free soil, Congress had to appease the South by agreeing to employ official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways and return them to their owners.

This infuriated the increasingly powerful Abolitionist lobby, and the whole debate became dangerously overheated through the 1850's.
Yes.

The vast new territories, especially California, rendered invalid the successful Missouri Compromise of 1820, so a new deal had to be worked out. This one did not hold.

The balance of power! When states were founded, they had to be either slave states or free states! When California joined the Union, the South had to fight to keep control over their slaves!

Hope that helps

----ummm no. that's wrong. it is ACTUALLY because it brought the slavery issue back up which the north opposed and the south liked

Answer 4

The war with Mexico got the Southerners excited about buying more land for slaves and cotton. When the United States won the war, they took more than half the land that Mexico had which today is some of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, a small part of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas. Slaveowners in the south wanted the land to widen their slave trade, but the north didn't want the slave trade to expand more than it already had. Tons of Southerners flooded to Kansas, and so did the Northerners because they did not want Kansas to become a slave state. There was a lot of violence, and that essentially started the war.

Answer 5

Because after the war, a group of Generals from the South discovered a time machine. At first they were unclear on how they should use it. But after awhile General Lee suggested that they use the time machine to go back in time, and capture more Black slaves. Both the North decided that time travelling was unethical and immoral, so they decided to put it to a vote. But since the Congress had more Anti-time travelling than pro-time travelling, Time travelling was deemed illegal. Swiftly the time machine was brought to the capital to be destroyed. When the South heard of the decision of the Congress and also that their time machine was confiscated, they decided to secede from the U.S. and get the time macine back for more black slaves.

There you have it :D

Answer 6

The Mexican-American War renewed the slave question: whenever new territories were acquired, were they supposed to be pro-slave or anti-slave?

This degenerated into a political argument and ultimately, armed conflict which erupted into the Civil War.

Answer 7

it was a secseccion by it doing good laws to the southern states on how not to act

Answer 8

it was all Polks fault that the Mexican war started cause he purposely stationed American soldiers acroos Rio Grande so that the Mexican calvary unit can ambush the Americans

Answer 9

It tipped the balance of power.