Civil War was a long spiral downward in American policy

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The controversy over slavery and eventual outbreak of the Civil War was a long spiral downward in American policy, in attempting to explain the South’s secession from the Union. Be sure to include the following in the essay: Manifest Destiny, War with Mexico, newly acquired territory, John Polk’s pro-Southern policies,Wilmot Proviso, popular soverignty, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, congressional elections of 1854, the rise of the Republicans, Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry,presidental election of 1860.