Prior to the civil war the large number of plantation-style farms in western territories made it likely that slavery would expand westward.
This was a war that broke out in the United States between the Union in the north and the confederates in the South.
The reason for this war was due to the fact that the union tried to put a stop to the use of slaves in the United States.
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