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The moral and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of The Mexican War and The Kansas-Nebraska Act are very conflicting. With the upset in balance of the Mexican War, antislavery activists were upset about any potential compromise while with the Kansas-Nebraska act, they settled with the idea of them being in a state of popular sovereignty.
Franklin Pierce supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act which cancelled the Missouri Compromise leading to a new rise of the debate about the spread of slavery in the Western Territories. After the outbreak of the Civil War he declared support for the Confederacy.
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
Slavery spread all over America But I amn' t sure where to
because there was no slavery there
1854
that kaNSAS WAS ADMITTED AS A FREE STATE
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery
The political party that stood against the spread of slavery was the newly formed Republican party. The party was emerged to combat the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which aimed to extend slavery.
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
The moral and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of The Mexican War and The Kansas-Nebraska Act are very conflicting. With the upset in balance of the Mexican War, antislavery activists were upset about any potential compromise while with the Kansas-Nebraska act, they settled with the idea of them being in a state of popular sovereignty.
Franklin Pierce supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act which cancelled the Missouri Compromise leading to a new rise of the debate about the spread of slavery in the Western Territories. After the outbreak of the Civil War he declared support for the Confederacy.
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
by allowing slavery to spread to areas that had been free for more than 30 years