Part 1: Historians often wrestle with thequestion of whether a particular event was"inevitable" or if a different outcome waspossible. Few events generate this kind of"counterfactual" or "what if..." thinking morethan the buildup to the Civil War.• Prompt: Imagine for a moment that youare a time traveler sent on a mission toprevent the Civil War from taking place.You can intercede in one event from the1850s found in this timeline . In threeto four sentences, identify your selectionand why you think altering this particularevent will make the Civil War less likely. WORKED EXAMPLEPart 1: In order to prevent the Civil War, Iwould convince the Supreme Court justicesof the Roger Taney court to alter their rulingon Dred Scott vs. Sandford. This ruling ineffect undid the Compromises of 1820 and1850 which alternately permitted andforbade the institution of slavery within theterritories as the U.S. frontier expanded. Byavoiding the logic that enslaved people wereproperty no matter where in the union theyresided, a balance of free and slave states inCongress could be maintained allowingneither side to have an upper hand.Part 2: I understand the appeal of thischoice; it's hard to think of a Supreme Courtdecision that looks so poorly reasoned andinhumane in retrospect. Yet thosecompromises were already on 'life support'because popular sovereignty-allowing thedenizens of a state to choose whether itwould tolerate slavery-had taken their place.One need only look at Kansas to see thatviolence between free labor and enslavedlabor advocates would flare up regardless ofslavery's technical legality and regardless ofwhether congressional "balance" existed.

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Part 1: Historians often wrestle with thequestion of whether a particular event was&#34;inevitable&#34; or if a different outcome waspossible. Few events generate this kind of&#34;counterfactual&#34; or &#34;what if...&#34; thinking morethan the buildup to the Civil War.• Prompt: Imagine for a moment that youare a time traveler sent on a mission toprevent the Civil War from taking place.You can intercede in one event from the1850s found in this timeline . In threeto four sentences, identify your selectionand why you think altering this particularevent will make the Civil War less likely. WORKED EXAMPLEPart 1: In order to prevent the Civil War, Iwould convince the Supreme Court justicesof the Roger Taney court to alter their rulingon Dred Scott vs. Sandford. This ruling ineffect undid the Compromises of 1820 and1850 which alternately permitted andforbade the institution of slavery within theterritories as the U.S. frontier expanded. Byavoiding the logic that enslaved people wereproperty no matter where in the union theyresided, a balance of free and slave states inCongress could be maintained allowingneither side to have an upper hand.Part 2: I understand the appeal of thischoice; it's hard to think of a Supreme Courtdecision that looks so poorly reasoned andinhumane in retrospect. Yet thosecompromises were already on 'life support'because popular sovereignty-allowing thedenizens of a state to choose whether itwould tolerate slavery-had taken their place.One need only look at Kansas to see thatviolence between free labor and enslavedlabor advocates would flare up regardless ofslavery's technical legality and regardless ofwhether congressional &#34;balance&#34; existed.

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The American Civil war was the bloodiest conflicts in the history of the United States, threatening…