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He models the western expansion crisis as a balance-of-power problem in which each new state threatened the distribution of congressional power between pro-slavery and anti-slavery blocs.
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He models the western expansion crisis as a balance-of-power problem in which each new state threatened the distribution of congressional power between pro-slavery and anti-slavery blocs.
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Jiang argues that slavery was not the North's main war aim; preserving the Union and federal authority was the central issue.
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"The problem was the nation was expanding westwards, okay? The nation was expanding west. And they were adding more states into the Union. And..."
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"But the problem, of course, is that a lot of these Western states had their own opinions. So the Western, so some of these..."
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"That was Lincoln's plan. Now the South did not like this plan and they were afraid of what Lincoln might really do as president..."
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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