How did slavery affect american politics

Slavery had an overwhelming impact on the economy, politics, and society of the United States during the first sixty years of the nineteenth century. The most important effect was to divide American political culture into two increasingly irreconcilable factions until the differences exploded into a civil war.

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the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.