The solution that preserved the balance between slave and free states while allowing slavery to expand into new territories was the Compromise of 1850. This plan was also known as the Clay Compromise, named after its main proponent, Senator Henry Clay. It included provisions such as admitting California as a free state, allowing popular sovereignty in the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
The conflict over slavery in the United States was primarily about the moral and economic implications of treating humans as property. It also centered around the balance of power between free states and slave states, as well as the debate over whether slavery should be allowed to expand into new territories.
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Northerners feared that Southern slave owners might expand slavery into new territories and states, potentially increasing the political power of slave states and threatening the balance of power between free and slave states in the United States. They also feared that the economic interests of Southern slave owners would dominate national policies, leading to the spread of slavery in the country.
Freelanders objected to slavery because they believed it was morally wrong to enslave another human being, that it violated the principles of equality and human rights. They also argued that allowing slavery to expand into new territories would threaten the economic opportunities of free white laborers.
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.
to expand slavery
In Greek and Roman times.
The Confederacy did not want to abolish slavery. In fact, they wanted to expand slavery into the new territories of the US.
Slavery had expanded into the Louisiana Territory in 1818, when the Missouri Compromise was declared by Henry Clay.
he did not want slavery to expand but he was okay for it to remain in the states that it was legal.
george washington
A hypertonic solution does shrink. It is when the osmotic pressure is greater than the solution that is within it.
Pro-slavery means that you favor slavery, & want it to stay.
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the admission of kansas into the union
Texas voted to have slavery. Kansas and Nebraska were divided in their decision for and against slavery. South also wanted to expand to California and north was adamant against it.
Because they wanted to expand slavery and the plantations making them bigger, creating possibility of more money and more dominant slavery union.