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Angelina Grimké
The South supported it because it could have allowed new slave-states. The Northern abolitionists opposed it for the same reason.
North wanted new states NOT to be slave and the South did. Also the North economy was more industrialized and the South economy was more agricultural and relied on slave labor
The Abolitionists were a small but powerful lobby in Congress, who were increasingly able to block the creation of new slave-states. This weakened the voting power of the South in Congress, which would tend to pass laws unfavourable to the South.
abolitionists were mostly from the northern states because in the south slaves were used to work but in the north they had free labor.
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Angelina Grimké
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Angelina and Sarah Grimké
Westward expansion caused problems between the north and south because, as the states there were becoming free and slave states, disagreements between abolitionists and slave owners grew to tall heights since both wanted their new home to support their ideals. This transferred to the north and south since most northerners wanted the United States to be slave free and most southerners wanted to preserve slavery in order to promote their economical and social status.
Abolitionists.
Because Brown was trying to distribute weapons for a nationwide slave rebellion. The South believed that this was what the Abolitionists wanted. It confirmed their view that the slave debate would never be settled, except through war.
He wanted to be a slave but couldn't
The radical abolitionists (circa 1800-1860) wanted the US to immediately outlaw slavery (with universal emancipation), and declare descendants of enslaved Africans as freedmen with all the rights of citizenship. In the South, the agricultural economy would likely have collapsed without a slave labor force, so they strongly opposed abolition.
Because it allowed slavery to continue in the Border States - slave-states of the Upper South that had stayed loyal.
North wanted the new states to be free states south wanted the new states to be slave states