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John Calhoun of South Carolina (the 7th Vice President of the US) was among the Southerners who resisted Northern efforts to introduce abolitionist laws in Congress. He died in 1850, just as the anti-slavery movement was growing.
The Southerners wanted slavery to move to the western territories. They wanted their already booming economy to be spread into the new states. However, they reached conflict with the Northerners who were not in favor of slavery. The Kansas- Nebraska Act allowed the citizens to vote whether or not they were for slavery caused major problems. This increased tensions between the opposing states. Before Abraham Lincoln's election, the country struggled on the issue of secession. When he took office in 1861, things reached their breaking point and the first Southern states seceded.
Carlo Kiehn
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Who was the people that the compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide whether they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 did not allow any choice in the matter. It reflected the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states. It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed the people of those two territories to vote on the slavery question. The only time it was tried (in Kansas), it led to terrible bloodshed, and was not tried again. The result was that Kansas rejected slavery.
What act allowed settlers in the territories to decide whether to allow slavery?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
In the seven Lincoln Douglas debates the number one topic was?
The principal topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was slavery. Specifically, Lincoln thought that all the territories (the parts of the United States that were not yet States) should be free of slavery, and that eventually, the federal government should outlaw slavery everywhere in the U.S., while Douglas thought that each territory should decide for itself whether it wanted to allow slavery or not.
What states did the Compromise of 1850 allow the people to decide whether or not they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850. The Utah Territory and the New Mexico Territory were formed by the Compromise of 1850 and these two territories could permit or prohibit slavery as a local option (popular sovereignty).
Which union state that did not allow slavery?
illinois
Why were the whigs and democrats forced to take a stand on slavery?
The Free-Soil Party wanted to allow slavery in the new territories.
Why were Whigs and Democrats forced to take a stand on slavery?
The Free-Soil Party wanted to allow slavery in the new territories.
Who wanted to allow slavery in the western territories.?
John Calhoun of South Carolina (the 7th Vice President of the US) was among the Southerners who resisted Northern efforts to introduce abolitionist laws in Congress. He died in 1850, just as the anti-slavery movement was growing. The Southerners wanted slavery to move to the western territories. They wanted their already booming economy to be spread into the new states. However, they reached conflict with the Northerners who were not in favor of slavery. The Kansas- Nebraska Act allowed the citizens to vote whether or not they were for slavery caused major problems. This increased tensions between the opposing states. Before Abraham Lincoln's election, the country struggled on the issue of secession. When he took office in 1861, things reached their breaking point and the first Southern states seceded.
Who was the people that the compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide whether they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 did not allow any choice in the matter. It reflected the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states. It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed the people of those two territories to vote on the slavery question. The only time it was tried (in Kansas), it led to terrible bloodshed, and was not tried again. The result was that Kansas rejected slavery.
Did the confederacy allow people in certain areas to determine whether or not their territory would allow slavery?
The Confederacy was composed of states that wanted slavery. That was the main purpose of the split between the Union and the Confederacy. For that reason, it's implied that all the territories had slavery. Even if the Confederacy had allowed the people to determine whether there was slavery in their area or not, they would have chosen slavery because the vast majority of the people in the South were for slavery because it was their way of life.
Which territories were able to choose by popular sovereignty whether or not to allow slavery?
New Mexico and Utah
What act allowed settlers in the territories to decide whether to allow slavery?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
He proposed the idea of popular sovereignty for the us territories?
The person that proposed the idea was Senator StephenA. Douglas. He wanted to abandon the MKissouri Compromise and let the settlers in each territory vote on whether to allow slavery.
The final act that destroyed the Whigs as a national political party was the?
The question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery to the territories
The key issue that continually emerged as the US expanded westward was whether or not to?
Too allow slavery in new territories
What problem did people in Missouri have when the state requested statehood?
There was a problem when Missouri wanted to become a state because the south wanted Missouri to enter as a slave state but the north wanted Missouri to enter as a free state. Which led to the Missouri Compromise.
In the seven Lincoln Douglas debates the number one topic was?
The principal topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was slavery. Specifically, Lincoln thought that all the territories (the parts of the United States that were not yet States) should be free of slavery, and that eventually, the federal government should outlaw slavery everywhere in the U.S., while Douglas thought that each territory should decide for itself whether it wanted to allow slavery or not.
