It was the Wilmot Proviso that declared that there should be no slavery in the new states. This gained support in Congress, and by 1860 most Northerners agreed with it, while tolerating slavery in its traditional heartlands. That was how Lincoln got elected.
free soil party i think
Its main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery in the western territories, with the argument that free men in free soil make up a system morally and economically superior to that of slavery.
The main goal of President Abraham Lincoln and his supporters was to end the rebellion of the Southern states that had declared their independence. Lincoln believed the issue of slavery, then a Constitutional right, could be addresses once the nation was again united. As a war measure, Lincoln announced the freedom of slaves in the Confederate states. He could not issue any emancipation of slaves in the border states for fear they might join the Confederacy.Lincoln had always stated he personally was against slavery, however, he had no intentions to end it in the South. Also, the US Supreme Court had called the institution of slavery to be legal. Most Northern people, however, did not want slavery to exist in the new territories of the West.
The main goal was to create a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Western Europe
To preserve slavery and have their own nation where slavery would exist.
free soil party i think
no
They didn't want let let slavery spread to the western territories
To stop the spread of slavery
Its main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery in the western territories, with the argument that free men in free soil make up a system morally and economically superior to that of slavery.
The party leadership consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery.
to prevent the spread of slavery westward as new territories became states.
The party leadership consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery.
The Republican Party was the political party that emerged in the 1850s with the primary goal of stopping the spread of slavery. Led by figures such as Abraham Lincoln, the party opposed the expansion of slavery into the new western territories and eventually played a crucial role in the abolition of slavery during the Civil War.
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Al-Qaeda
free soilers: their goal was to prohibit slavery only in new territories- many were unconvinced that the whole institution of slavery could be eliminated, some were northerns who did not want to compete economically with slavery in the new territories, others were racist and did not want blacks, free or enslaved, playing a role in westward expansion abolitionists: their goal was to abolish slavery completely they were more into the moral aspect of the issue and generally supported social equality