The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported.
On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered what came to be called his “strategy of peace” speech that paved the way for a limited nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union.
When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed power of the Soviet Union in 1985, he instituted the policies of glasnost and perestroika in hopes of sparking the sluggish economy. What resulted from this taste of freedom was the revolution that ended the Cold War.
<span>Britain supported the North financially and militarily.
The woolen mills of the North exported wool to Britain.
Britain exported textiles to the North.
The North exported extra cotton to Britain.
The North exported wheat and corn to Britain.
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