The issue of which new states should be slave and which should be free soil.
The novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', written as a protest against the Fugitive Slave Act.
The slavery controversy refers to the heated debate and conflict surrounding the institution of slavery in the United States leading up to the Civil War in the 19th century. It involved arguments over the morality, legality, and economic impact of slavery, ultimately leading to a war between the Northern and Southern states. The controversy ultimately resulted in the abolition of slavery in the United States.
slavery
Slavery in gained territories.
The Compromise of 1850.
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
Every state that was a state during the the Civil War.
John Brown stirred up controversy with his attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859. He led a raid on the federal armory in an attempt to incite a slave uprising and abolish slavery. The attack was met with significant resistance, leading to Brown's capture and subsequent execution, which further polarized the nation and heightened tensions between the North and South over the issue of slavery.
The expansion of the United States westward into newly acquired Mexican territories and other western territories caused a lot of controversy. The Mason-Dixon line was still the rule, but the controversy was when California, due to its climate where cotton and tobacco were unable to grow, entered the union as a free state, as slavery was unnecessary. The controversy was attempted to be put to rest by California agreeing to always having a pro-Slavery senator as to not have an anti-Slavery majority in the Senate. See the related link.
The Thee-Fifths Compromise
Slavery
Constitutional Unionist John Bell