<span>T</span>he Mexican-American War has put the slavery question into a fiercer debate. The independent Republic of Texas was anti-slavery, but would like to join the United States. However, there is a question in the United States whether absorbed territory would be a slave or free state. The Americans emerged victorious in the war, and Texas became a part of the United States and became a slave state, further inflaming tensions between the North and the South that culminated into American Civil War.
</span>"The Berlin Wall came to symbolize the vast divide between western culture and values, on the one hand, and Soviet-Communist culture and values, on the other."
