Jack of Harts

With the threat of Britain diminishing in the thirty years following our successful war with Mexico, we stumbled towards another war of our own making.  Abolitionists demanded Slavery’s end.  Slave States in turn threatened Secession, until we passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.  Local settlers would democratically decide if their territory would be Free or Slave.  Sometimes I wonder if they recognized the powder keg they were holding a match to.