Note 130 — Chapter XIV · THE TWO AMERICAS AND THE RELATION OF SOUTH AMERICA TO EUROPE
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Had the Slave States succeeded in dissociating themselves from the northern and western Free States in the Civil War of 1861–1865, there would have been at least three. It may be suggested that if there had been neither steamships nor railroads, the Pacific slope of North America (California, Oregon, and Washington) might possibly have become the home of yet another independent nation.