because slaves were a part of our country and somebody had to say it was unfaire so political parties from the north and south disputed it
Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
The political issue behind the question of expanding slavery after the Mexican-American War was whether the newly acquired territories would be free or slave states. This debate ultimately led to the Compromise of 1850, which temporarily resolved the issue by allowing some territories to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty.
The tougher 1850 Fugitive Slave Act was an economical measure to have valuable slaves who escaped to the North to be returned. There were bounties for doing so and penalties for not following the law. It was political in that it brought the political issue of slavery to the non-slave North. Even President-elect Lincoln promised to enforce it. And, by having escaped slaves returned, it strengthened the social structure of the South. It also kept the North "white".
European slave trading became a major issue in the English colonies. In the western par of Europe slave trade started diminishing gradually.
The compromise that was reached over the issue of slave trade was "Three-Fifths Compromise's.
to many slave states being added into the union
The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by the territory of Missouri's petition for admission to the Union as a slave state.
A Person That Is Favoring One Side Of An Political Issue Is Called An Partisan.
He was a slave in a free state
//Previous Answer:It is a party that consists of more than one issue that they discuss in political debates.//New Answer: "A single-issue party is a political party that campaigns on only one issue."
There was and even amount of slave and slave-free states
Political parties avoided the issue of slavery for many years after the Missouri compromise.