Probably the Missouri Compromise of 1920. It started the debates about whether or not the new western states would allow slavery. It temporarily stopped the spread of slaver north of the 36 30 parallel, but would eventually lead to tensions between the North and the South and promote the Civil War.
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Whittier's religious beliefs, particularly his Quaker faith, had the greatest influence on his opinions about slavery. The Quaker principles of equality, peace, and social justice shaped his strong opposition to the institution of slavery.
The two greatest domestic issues for the US in the nineteenth century were slavery and the US Civil War. Both issues were connected.
No one knows where slavery began. The institution of slavery pre-dates written history and existed in every society until the 19th century, when it began to be abolished country by country.
Our peculiar institution was a euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the American South. The proper use of the expression is always possessive. It was popular during the first half of the 19th century as the word "slavery" was no longer proper to use.
The interstate slave trade flourished when cotton became popular among the colonies.
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The "Peculiar Institution" was and remains a common euphemism for slavery in the U.S. southern slave states. People to this day will speak of "the South's Peculiar Institution" as a way of referring to slavery without actually using the word "slavery."