The puritans typically formed a very strict community and following god was crucial.
<span>Medicine in the United States was woefully behind Europe. Harvard Medical School did not even own a single stethoscope or microscope until after the war. Most Civil War surgeons had never treated a gun shot wound and many had never performed surgery. Medical boards admitted many "quacks," with little to no qualification.</span>
The Wilmot Proviso failed to win the passage in the Senate. However, its introduction sparked a political firestorm that was never seen before since the Missouri debates that happened from 1819-1821. The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in places that were acquired from Mexico.
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