The Ohio River, as the dividing line between<span> slave states, </span>south,<span> and free-soil states, </span>north.
Explanation:
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Answer:
The Union will have a much much larger army, not only because it did IRL, but a third of the confederate population were slaves and were not allowed to fight, and because there is an almost 20% population gap between the two.
Explanation:
The US had many attempts at compromise with varying levels of sucess before the Civil War. However, when Lincoln was elected president (on the platform of stopping the expansion of slavery), the South lost hope and seceded.
There is always a solution other than war, however, in this case, war had been a looming possibility for quite some time, and compromise probably would've only pushed the war back a year or two.
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Generally it is true that loess deposits usually blanket an area in an even layer, although it should be noted that things like wind and rain patters can affect this distribution.