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Jul 4, 2023Liked by Alexandra Sokoloff

Had absolutely no clue that California was in such a dangerously pivotal spot as secession and civil war loomed in the east.

"That is the power words have have.” <-- another typo?

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California had the money - from gold and now increasingly from silver - to finance the whole war. Both sides knew it. And the South desperately wanted California as a slave state.

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Thank you! Fixed it!

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