The Republican Party and the Quakers were the leading opponents of expanding slavery into the new territories.
No - there was no slavery in the new territories - California or New Mexico or Utah. Texas was a slave state already.
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.
It prohibited slavery North of a certain parallel, but only in the territories brought in under the Louisiana Purchase. When the new Mexican territories came in, they needed a new compromise. That one did not hold.
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.
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No - there was no slavery in the new territories - California or New Mexico or Utah. Texas was a slave state already.
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
Slavery was abolished in the United States territories in June 1862. Any new territory was not to have possession of any slaves after this date.
The Whig Party
Settlers of some new territories were able to decide about slavery for themselves.
The Confederacy did not want to abolish slavery. In fact, they wanted to expand slavery into the new territories of the US.
Slavery
Even though Zachary Taylor was a slave owner himself, he did not push up the expansion of slavery in the new territories.
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.
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New Mexico and Utah