maintain political power by ensuring that new states admitted to the Union would allow slavery, preserve the economic benefits of slavery for the southern plantation system, and protect the social hierarchy that relied on slavery for labor. This desire to expand slavery into western territories ultimately fueled tensions between the North and South, leading to the American Civil War.
The South supported the Dred Scott decision, as it reinforced the rights of slave owners to take their slaves into territories where slavery was prohibited. They viewed it as a victory for protecting their property rights and upholding the institution of slavery.
The settlement of new territories in the United States heightened conflict over slavery because it raised questions about whether these territories would allow slavery or be free. This tension intensified as each side sought to exert influence over the new territories to ensure its position on slavery was upheld. Ultimately, these disputes led to the Civil War, as the North and South could not reconcile their differing views on slavery in the expanding nation.
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.
The Wilmot Proviso aimed to ban slavery in territories acquired after the Mexican-American War, specifically in the lands taken from Mexico. It was a controversial proposal that heightened tensions between the North and South over the issue of slavery expansion.
There was this tension, because the territories claimed by the South became slave territories and the territories claimed by the North became free territories. The North wanted no slavery and the South wanted slaves. So, the North and south raced to get as much land as possible to cause the other direction ( N. or S. ) to submit into slavery or no slavery
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John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun.
The south was based off of farming. They had a small scale of land and a low population. They wanted to reach new territories to help promote slavery and farming.
Consider this: Exactly which "people of those territories" wanted expansion of slavery. Definitely not any of the black people. Actually, nearly all the lobbying for slavery came from people living in the South who were anxious to gain more power in the House and Senate for their cause.
South ofthat line, slavery was allowed. But it only applied to the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the USA acquired vast new lands from Mexico in 1847, a new compromise had to be worked out, in view of the Wilmot Proviso, which declared that no slavery should be allowed in any of these new territories.
Because the Wilmot Proviso sought to halt the extension of slavery in the western territories
maintain political power by ensuring that new states admitted to the Union would allow slavery, preserve the economic benefits of slavery for the southern plantation system, and protect the social hierarchy that relied on slavery for labor. This desire to expand slavery into western territories ultimately fueled tensions between the North and South, leading to the American Civil War.
Southern plantation holders were appalled at the idea that that slavery would be banned in the US territories. They realized that as the territories became States and continued their anti slavery positions, the South would became an even smaller group of slave holding States. In turn, this could lead to the abolition of slavery nationwide. They were correct in this assumption. Most Americans were against slavery. In the days of antebellum, their Congressional response was the passing of the Missouri Compromises.
The issue that the North and South fought over was called the Wilmot Proviso. It was basically a law of slavery: the North and South were fighting over slavery. The North were anti-slavery and the South were pro-slavery
The Missouri Compromise addressed slavery in the Arkansas and unorganized territory of the Great Plains. Slavery was prohibited in all of these areas, except within the boundaries of Missouri.