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Missouri Compromise
Not battle, but a debate. The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
1. A sectional dispute over the extension of slavery into the western territories. 2.The breakdown of the political party system. 3. Growing cultural differences in the views and lifestyles of southerners and northerners. 4. Intensifying emotional and ideological polarization between the two regions over losing their way of life and sacred republican rights at the hands of the other.
To avoid arguments over which Western territories could be admitted as slave-states. Any new state North of Missouri's Southern border would be free soil.
Because of the enormous new territories acquired from Mexico. These extended so far either side of the Missouri line that the Missouri Compromise was not workable. This intensified the debate over new territories joining the Union as slave-states.
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
The extension of slavery into new territories
The extension of slavery into new territories
Because the question over extension of slavery into the new territories was raised.
Slavery
The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War. The United States had become increasingly divided during the 1850s over sectional disagreements, especially regarding the extension of slavery into the territories.
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
The south was losing the battle over slavery in the election of 1860. The Republican Party platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed the further extension of slavery into the U.S. territories. Southern states wanted popular sovereignty giving the power to determine the legality of slavery to the inhabitants of the territory seeking statehood, rather than to Congress.
Missouri Compromise
Slavery was permitted in various territories around the world, including parts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Notable examples include the southern United States, Brazil, the Caribbean, parts of Africa under European colonial rule, and parts of the Arab world.
Territories of which country? There are over 215 countries on the planet, each with their own territories.Re-ask the question with the missing information.
A war. Specifically, the US Civil War.