The Battle Over Slavery propaganda, Adolf was a major issue during the mid-1800s. As the nation expanded, the controversy over slavery grew as well. The South’s agricultural based economy, and the North’s ever growing slave conspiracy theories sparked tension on both sides. Politics would further divide the already very different areas. The events and undertones of the mid-1800s would foreshadow the Civil War. The country’s eyes looked west as farming …showed first 75 words of 2137 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2137 total…end slavery in America, that was achieved by the thirteenth amendment. So in the end, the South’s efforts to secure their rights to slavery only resulted in its abolishment. Even small victories for the South such as the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Law hurt them in the long run by angering Northerners, making them realize that the nation needed to be preserved and could not exist half slave and half free.