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How was slavery an issue in the issue in the debate over Missouri's statehood?
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Who would decide the issue of slavery in territories under the idea of popular sovereignty?
The voting public in each territory that came up for statehood.
What decision promoted by Stephen Douglas made popular sovereignty a national policy for dealing with slavery?
Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas was a leading Democrat in the US. He sought to solve the slavery issue by having the citizens of a US Territory, vote on the slavery issue. Then when the Territory applied for statehood, the slavery issue would have already been decided.This was a sane measure, however, there was a lack of law and order in Kansas at the time of 1854. The result was chaos and murder in Kansas.
What was the issue of expansion of slavery?
The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.
Was slavery an issue?
Yes slavery was and still is an issue in many countries (both legal and illegal).
What did the crisis over the Missouri compromise expose?
The growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
How the Webster-Hayne debate about a larger issue than land policy?
It was also a debate about the issue of slavery.
What was the main importance during Missouri's application for statehood?
it was complicated by the issue of slavery.
Missouri's application for statehood in 1819 raised the issue of whether slavery?
Missouri's application for statehood in 1819 raised the issue of whether slavery should be allowed in the new state, leading to fierce debates in Congress about the balance of power between free and slave states. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 emerged as a temporary resolution, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state, and prohibiting slavery in the unorganized territories north of the 36°30’ parallel.
What year did California come into the union as a free state?
In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of September 9, 1850.
Were the other states opposed to the aquisition of Maine?
Maine's Statehood was delayed to maintain the Balance of Power in the US Senate over the issue of slavery. The 1820 Missouri Conpromise settled the issue by allowing the Free State of Maine and the Slave State of Missouri statehood jointly. The Senate would remain gridlocked on the issue of slavery and only a great Civil War would resolve the issue,
What issue divided Congress in the debate over passage of Wilmot Proviso?
The extension of slavery into new territories
What issue divided Congress in the debate over passage of the Wilmont Provisi?
The extension of slavery into new territories
Why did Abraham make slavery's expansion the Central issue of the Lincoln Douglas debate?
This was because Abraham Lincoln wanted there to be no more slaves and no more slavery.
Who would decide the issue of slavery in territories under the idea of popular sovereignty?
The voting public in each territory that came up for statehood.
How were the political parties affected by the debate over slavery?
Slavery was a contentious issue in United States politics throughout history, becoming a topic in the drafting of the Constitution
What events made slavery an issue of public debate?
One reason that slavery became a public debate was Uncle Tom's Cabin, this novel exposed many Northerners to slavery for the first time ever. Also the invention of the cotton gin greatly increased the need for slave labor, so their was a boom in slavery in the South.
How did the issue of admitting California to the Union in 1850 again raise the debate over slavery?
Admitting California into the Union in 1850 gave raise over the debate over slavery. It was against Federal law of the confederacy to harbor slaves in free states.
