It will test if they can survive this civil war stay united, then the Union will continue to live on.
They had kept greek n roman culture alive for a 1,000 years after the fall of the roman empire in the west. which had preserved this cultural legacy until it was taken up in the west during the renaissance.
It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. In 1812, with President Madison in office, Congress declared war against the British. The war began with an attack on Canada, both as an effort to gain land and to cut off British supply lines to Tecumseh's Indian confederation, which had long troubled the US.
Texas gained their independece from Mexico as a result of the 1836 revlution in texas.
The answer is Cultural Diffusion.