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If there had been no American Civil War?

And new states continued to join at the same times in in real history, but only as free states, at point would they have sufficiently outnumbered the slave states that an amendment could have been passed over the united objections of the slave states?

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  • John
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    At the time of the American Civil War there was an equal number of free and slave states. The slave states would never have agreed to admit any free state unless a slave state was admitted at the same time. There never would have been a sufficient majority to abolish slavery in the Senate and slavery would have continued. Most likely it would have continued until the 1940's as cotton continued to be very profitable with slave labor. A lot of cotton is still grown in the United States but in the 1940's the mechanical cotton picker came into wide usage so hand labor to pick cotton was no longer needed. Had the war not happened there is no reason to believe slavery would have ended before the 1940's.

  • tuffy
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    The slave states were out-numbered at the moment the American Civil War began slave states-15 free states 23. It was unlikely any future slave states would have entered the Union, even if the war had never occurred.

  • 7 years ago

    The point at which the slave states would have seceded,causing a civil war then.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    two Americas No WW2 and the Confederate states and the UK would be allies and Friends

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    agree

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