Road to Civil War: William Harrison through James Buchanan | RAC's Presidential Parks

America is a nation that was born in conflict, fought for freedom, and then, quickly, began to grow. But that’s not to say that conflict had dissipated following the Revolutionary War. One such conflict plagued the Constitutional Convention, caused upsets when adding new states to the Union, and eventually, drove the nation into a Civil War. This hot button topic, of course, was slavery. The following presidents had to struggle with how to compromise with pro and anti slavery forces, as well as continue to expand the growing country’s borders westward towards the Pacific Ocean to claim their so-called “God-given” right, their Manifest Destiny. These are the stories of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan, told with a little help from the units of the National Parks.
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