How did the settlement of the West increase tension between the North and South?

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Sienna Bond

5 January, 08:54

How did the settlement of the West increase tension between the North and South?

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Ryan Yang · Answer 1

The main way in which settlement of the west increase tension between the north and south was that each new state in the Union had to decide whether to be "slave" or "free"--leading to much more tension over the issue of slavery. This tension eventually led to the Civil War.