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What court case decision allowed slavery to extend into the territories making many Northerners angry?
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 US 393 (1857)
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Why northerners favored the wilmot proviso?
Because it would abolish slavery in all of the new territories; territories that were acquired from the Mexican War
What opened all territories to slavery?
dred scott decision
Why did the northerners protest Douglas's plan to repeal The Missouri Compromise?
The northerners protests DouglasÕs plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because it would have made slavery legal in the northern territories. The Missouri Compromise had outlawed slavery in territories and new states above the Missouri Compromise line.
Which group is an example of the northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories but did not have positive feelings toward African Americans?
Abolitionists
Which group is an example of Northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the Territories but did not have positive feelings toward African Americans?
Abolitionists
How did antislavery northerners hope to prevent slavery in Kansas?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of the U.S. Congress said voters in these territories to choose whether they would allow slavery or not. Thousands of antislavery northerners went into Kansas and voted to forbid slavery, then returned home.
What was northern white abolitionist's view on slavery?
Generally speaking, Northerners and Northern politicians believed that slavery should not be allowed to expand to new territories or new states. Part of their argument was negated in 1857 by a ruling by the US Supreme Court which said slavery was constitutional.
What development during the 1850s caused northerners to fear that slavery would spread throughout the western territories?
The decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case that the Constitution protected a man's property, including slave property.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?
What effect did the did the Mexican war have on the issue of slavery?
The Mexican-American War caused an internal dispute in the United States government over slavery. The Northerners did not want slavery to spread into the new territories if they were annexed into the United States, while the Southerners wanted the territories to have the right to decide.
What was the controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
Who proposed that slavery would not allowed in the territories of the Mexican cession?
David Wilmot
