So they dont rebel
If slavery spread then they would have a better chance of keeping slavery in the united states. They wanted to keep slavery in the south because they did not have to pay their workers like the factory workers in the North did. "Free" labor.
workers who were "Reds" or communists
factory owners
The slave owners.
They opposed it because they received cotton from the southern plantations for clothes so slavery was also a source of money for them.
The loss of slavery would threaten the southern economy
The whigs from the North were known as Conscience Whigs and those of the South were known as Cotton Whigs. The ones in the north opposed slavery except for the factory owners, which liked slavery die to the cheap cotton. the Southern Whigs supported slavery and wished to expand it into the territories.
Factory owners by union workers
So they dont rebel
The Abolitionists were anti-slavery. The advocated for enslaved African Americans in the south. This upset the northern factory workers, because they were basically slaves themselves. They lived in factory communities(apartment blocks of sorts) worked 12-14hr shifts, and any money they made went towards buying food and paying for the apartments they had to live in. Essentially all the money that was made was payed right back to the factory owners. In other words Northern factory workers cried for help as much as southern slaves
If slavery spread then they would have a better chance of keeping slavery in the united states. They wanted to keep slavery in the south because they did not have to pay their workers like the factory workers in the North did. "Free" labor.
At first, there were more slave states than free states, so pro-slavery senators controlled the senate. They could reject anti-slavery judges and cabinet members and stop legislation that was against slavery. As the northern population grew, and slavery ended in several northern states, eventually there were more anti-slavery senators. This meant that the slave owners were no longer in control of the government and was one cause of the war.
Yes and no. Even though there was institutional slavery, but there was discrimination even in the north. Exslaves also had to be careful because under Fugitive laws they could be considered property and returned to the plantation owners.
Southern slave owners feared that Northern attitudes toward slavery, which were increasingly abolitionist, would threaten their economic and social system based on slave labor. They worried that Northern efforts to limit the expansion of slavery into new territories would eventually lead to its abolition in the South. This fear stemmed from the understanding that Northern abolitionist sentiment posed a direct challenge to the institution of slavery that was foundational to the Southern way of life.
Factory owners reacted with violence
To protect American factory owners against competition from British manufacturers