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How did the westward expansion help to deepen the national crisis over slavery?
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It was getting more difficult to create new slave-states, so the South were in danger of being out-voted in Congress, which would then pass laws unfavourable to Southern interests.
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What crisis over The Missouri Compromise expose?
the growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
What reforms or crisis took place after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Proclamation did not cause any crisis, as it did not directly change the slavery situation. It defused a crisis for Lincoln, who was worried about British intervention on the side of the Confederates. The Proclamation turned the war into an official crusade against slavery, so free nations abroad could not help the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
Did hinton helper support slavery?
No he did not, he thought it was awful. As stated in The Impending Crisis of the South, slavery hurt the entire economy of the south, but mainly the non-slaveholding white farmers.
What if slavery was still legal in the US?
if slavery was still legal today in the united states of America, i personally think the the whole nation would hate each other. the northerners would still be against slavery, and the southerners would still have plantations for slaves to work on. the nation would be in a major crisis if slavery was legal today.
What effect did the bleeding Kansas crisis have on the slavery debate in the years immediately before the war?
It kept both Kansas and Nebraska out of the Union until after the Civil War.
How did westward expansion turn the slavery issue into a national crisis?
Because both sides were competing for the new territories that would be admitted to the USA. The South was the smaller half, and every new free-soil state increased the Northern majority in Congress. So Congress found it easier to pass laws that favoured the North against the South, especially the tariffs on imports, when it was the South that needed imports most, having no manufacturing industry of their own.
What is Georgia platform?
a set of rules
How did California state hood spark a new crisis over slavery?
California's application for statehood as a free state in 1850 upset the delicate balance between free and slave states in the US Senate, leading to tensions over the expansion of slavery. This crisis ultimately culminated in the Compromise of 1850, which included provisions such as the Fugitive Slave Act and popular sovereignty in new territories to address the issue of slavery.
What agreement attempted to address a crisis over slavery?
The Missouri Compromise was the first attempt to ease the looming crisis over slavery. It effectively prevented the spread of slavery into new states but did nothing to eliminate slavery in current slave states.
Can a manhunt cause a National Crisis?
A NATIONWIDE crisis?? !!! Probably not.
Is there a national teenage crisis hotline?
There are hotlines for teenages in crisis. The website is www.pamf.org/teen/hotlines.html. There is another hotline for youth in crisis. The website is www.cocommunity.net/agency/national-youth-crisis-hotline.html.
What was the Missouri Crisis?
The Missouri Crsis was about the issuse that slavery has caused.
Why was Crittenden compromise unacceptable to Lincoln?
The Crittenden Compromise was impossible for Abraham Lincoln to even consider. First of all it called for permanent slavery in the slave states with no chance of repeal once it was enacted. The Republicans were adamantly opposed to the expansion of slavery.
What agreement attempted to address a economic crisis over slavery?
The Treaty of Ghent
What crisis over The Missouri Compromise expose?
the growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
What did the crisis over the Missouri compromise expose?
The growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
Can you make a sentence with the word national?
The onset of war produced a national crisis.
