The issue of slavery could have been solved without war by people realizing that all people are equal no matter the color of their skin. If people realized this, then the slaves would have been let go with no problems.
For its time in US history, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, seemed to be the most logical solution to keep the number of free States and slave States in balance. No one could have predicted the rapid growth of the United States and the force of the anti slavery movement. The issue of slavery, meaning, should it exist in America or not, was not an issue to be solved in 1820. As an aside, the major power in the world of its day, The British Empire did not abolish slavery until 1833.
No it was not an issue their!
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
the issue of slavery is so wrong and causes disgust in many
It wasn't
Slavery was not something you could half-abolish.
...keeping the British out of the war. After the issue of the Proclamation, they could not aid the Confederates without looking pro-slavery.
It never solved the slavery question. The most serious consecuence was the American Civil War (1861 - 1865)
Through popular sovereignty
For its time in US history, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, seemed to be the most logical solution to keep the number of free States and slave States in balance. No one could have predicted the rapid growth of the United States and the force of the anti slavery movement. The issue of slavery, meaning, should it exist in America or not, was not an issue to be solved in 1820. As an aside, the major power in the world of its day, The British Empire did not abolish slavery until 1833.
It was Northern win that Lincoln had been waiting for, so that he could issue the Emancipation Proclamation - turning the war into a crusade against slavery, so that Britain and France could not aid the Confederates without looking pro-slavery themselves.
It was an unexpected Northern victory, which gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which turned it into a war on slavery, so no foreign power could intervene on the side of the Confederates without looking pro-slavery.
No it was not an issue their!
The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
One big issue was slavery.