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What if gold was discovered say in 1849? (15 years later than OTL.) As we know because gold was discovered early it allowed for southern migration and eventually becoming a slave state after becoming independent (like our sister state Texas.) Would the Mexican American War have gone differently? How many states would we have? Most importantly, how would the civil war have gone. Would it have ended earlier or the same time as OTL (1866)
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