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Pbs Learning Media: How the Mexican American War Affected Slavery

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Why did many abolitionists oppose the Mexican-American war? Find out in this video segment that explores how this war affected efforts to abolish slavery while also raising the issue of how the acquisition of such a large territory would affect the balance between slave and free states. This led to the Great Compromise of 1850. [3:26]

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great compromise, pbs learningmedia: how the mexican-american war affected slavery, compromise of 1850, mexican war (1846-1848)
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)