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The abolitionists thought it was a bad deal. They thought it would strip them of their rights of holding slaves due to the annexation of territory. This created uncertainty for the abolitionists.

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Why did abolitionist oppose Mexican American war?

The abolitionists thought it was a bad deal. They thought it would strip them of their rights of holding slaves due to the annexation of territory. This created uncertainty for the abolitionists.


What people did not agree with the Mexican American War?

Northern abolitionists.


What was the region of the US that opposed war with Mexico?

Northern abolitionists opposed the Mexican American War.


What group who feared the spread of slavery opposed the Mexican American war?

abolitionists


Did John Quincy Adams oppose the us Mexican war?

No


Why did abolitionists oppose the Mexican American War?

Because it was seen as favoring slavery.


What two groups were against the Mexican American war what two groups were against the Mexican American war and why?

The two primary groups opposed to the Mexican-American War were abolitionists and some Whigs. Abolitionists opposed the war because they feared it would expand slave territory and perpetuate slavery in new states. Meanwhile, many Whigs criticized the war on moral and constitutional grounds, arguing it was an unjust aggression against Mexico and a distraction from domestic issues.


Why did some Americans oppose the Mexican American War?

Because it was destined to increase and support the establishment of slave states and to upset the delicate balance of power established in the Compromise of 1850. It opened a new discourse on slavery that could only be resolved by Civil War.


Was Frederick Douglass opposed to the Mexican American War?

No he was an expansionist who favored the war.


John Locke's arguments were used in the eighteenth century to create which types of government?

to oppose U.S. territorial expansion during and after the Mexican War.


Why did northern factory workers oppose the abolitionists before the US Civil War?

Freed African Americans would take some of their jobs, the workers were socially higher than slaves, and disruption of the Union.


Which of the following Americans was oppossed to the Mexican American war?

Without a list offered to choose from, this would require some guesswork. If Abraham Lincoln is on the list he opposed the Mexican American War. So did John Quincy Adams. As a general rule all abolitionists would have stood against it. Quakers would oppose it. Frederick Douglass spoke out against it. Catholics opposed it, with the exception of Irish Catholics who were in direct competition with blacks in the job market. Marylanders and Louisiana Catholics were pro slavery and other exceptions also existed.