Question

In what way did slaves affect the outcome of the Civil War?

Answer 1

In a multiplicity of ways. Differing views on slavery nearly torpedoed the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Many compromises and accommodations were made to slave states in order to keep them as part of the union. The question of how slaves should be counted for purposes of proportional representation was a point over which delegates argued for many days.
The economic basis of the southern agrarian economy was predicated upon the availability of slaves. Southerners fought to protect their ability to bring slaves into the country and northern abolitionists opposed them tooth and nail.
Many thought that the slavery question should have been settled in the Constitution. But our Founding Document could never have been ratified had the northern states not decided to let the question ripen over time. The result was nearly 100 years of acrimony and ever more fixed and opposite positions

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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