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If Van Buren or Clay is elected in 1844, I think we can avoid the Mexican War and therefore avoid the civil war. I think do to economic changes and international pressure ITTL slavery would die out. There would be no 14th or 15th amendments. African American's legal status would be different state by state. In most of the US they would be legal second class citizens. The South would have an apartheid system. The Northern states that passed exclusion laws would get to keep them. Some states would offer equality. In politics the slavery issue never becomes the most pressing issue. The Whig Party survives and today is the conservative party like OTL's Republicans.
 
I actually read in one of the oxford history of the united states (what hath god wrought), that if William Henry Harrison had survived, that it is believed the civil war might have been avoided.

The unfortunate thing is, i am having so much trouble finding that page/source in the book again it is now pissing me off.
 
I actually read in one of the oxford history of the united states (what hath god wrought), that if William Henry Harrison had survived, that it is believed the civil war might have been avoided.

The unfortunate thing is, i am having so much trouble finding that page/source in the book again it is now pissing me off.

Maybe they mean't that he would not have approved the annexation of Texas, but that does not mean it would not happen after he left office.
 
I actually read in one of the oxford history of the united states (what hath god wrought), that if William Henry Harrison had survived, that it is believed the civil war might have been avoided.

The unfortunate thing is, i am having so much trouble finding that page/source in the book again it is now pissing me off.

I don't remember this at all in What Hath God Wrought, although I will be happily proven incorrect. But I think your general idea is correct, that a period of prosperity and Whig dominance could prevent the escalation of sectional tension.

Pieces of Oregon and Mexican territory can still fall to the US, but it will be a much slower process and will be expanded over a greater number of years.
 
I don't remember this at all in What Hath God Wrought,

I'm actually starting to think that it might not have been What Hath God Wrought. But i distinctly remember reading that point of view in one of the books, and even a couple of footnotes which referenced articles of what some scholars had written about a successful Harrison term.

And i read it in the last six months, and it is in one of the books i have on US history, but i can't for the life of me be absolutely sure if it was What Hath God Wrought
 
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