The expansion of the United States westward into newly acquired Mexican territories and other western territories caused a lot of controversy. The Mason-Dixon line was still the rule, but the controversy was when California, due to its climate where cotton and tobacco were unable to grow, entered the union as a free state, as slavery was unnecessary. The controversy was attempted to be put to rest by California agreeing to always having a pro-Slavery senator as to not have an anti-Slavery majority in the Senate.
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In the election of 1848, the Democrats chose a platform that remained silent on slavery. Nominee Lewis Cass was pro-slavery, so many anti-slavery Democrats walked out of the Baltimore convention to begin the Free Soil party.
John Calhoun of South Carolina (the 7th Vice President of the US) was among the Southerners who resisted Northern efforts to introduce abolitionist laws in Congress. He died in 1850, just as the anti-slavery movement was growing. The Southerners wanted slavery to move to the western territories. They wanted their already booming economy to be spread into the new states. However, they reached conflict with the Northerners who were not in favor of slavery. The Kansas- Nebraska Act allowed the citizens to vote whether or not they were for slavery caused major problems. This increased tensions between the opposing states. Before Abraham Lincoln's election, the country struggled on the issue of secession. When he took office in 1861, things reached their breaking point and the first Southern states seceded.
Slavery played a significant role in westward expansion in the United States. The expansion of slavery into new territories and states fueled sectional tensions between the North and South, eventually leading to the American Civil War. The issue of whether new states would allow or prohibit slavery was a major factor in determining the balance of power between the free and slave states, and ultimately the course of westward expansion.
Westward expansion intensified the debate over slavery as new territories were acquired, raising the question of whether they would permit slavery or be free states. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to address this by establishing a line that divided free and slave states, but it ultimately highlighted the growing sectional tensions. As more territories sought statehood, the issue of slavery became increasingly contentious, culminating in events like the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the violent confrontations known as "Bleeding Kansas." This escalating conflict over slavery in the West contributed significantly to the divisions that led to the Civil War.
The primary issue of disagreement between the Eastern and Western churches was the authority of the Pope. The Western Church, centered in Rome, upheld the Pope as the supreme authority over all Christians, while the Eastern Church, particularly in Constantinople, emphasized a conciliar model of governance and rejected papal supremacy. This theological and jurisdictional conflict contributed to the Great Schism of 1054, which formally divided Christianity into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Other points of contention included the filioque clause in the Nicene Creed and various cultural and liturgical differences.
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The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.
Actually there were two major issues that were decided by the US Civil War. The end of the Confederate rebellion made it clear that secession from the United States was eventually as being illegal. The Union's victory in the US Civil War also meant that slavery would be abolished in the US by the 13th amendment.
its either - the senate passed a fugitive law banning slavery in states where it was currently leagal OR - The lagality of slavery had to be decided in lands added from the Mexican Cession. OR - Northern congressmen wanted California to entehr the Union as a Free State.... SO SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIND THE ANSWER... IT HAS TO BE ONE OF THESE...
The issue of which new states should be slave and which should be free soil.
The issue of slavery in the territory ceded by Mexico was decided by the Compromise of 1850, which allowed residents to determine whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This meant that the territories of New Mexico and California could decide on the slavery issue for themselves when applying for statehood.
Slavery became the major dividing issue between Northern and Southern states in the U.S. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820, involving the regulation of slavery in the Western territories. This started people taking sides over whether slavery should be abolished altogether, or remain an essential right of the people.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed for popular sovereignty (letting settlers in a territory decide the slavery issue) in the western territories, which led to increased tensions and the expansion of slavery in those areas.
The overriding issue was slavery. The compromise included The Fugitive Slave Act and agreement to allow slavery within the borders of Missouri.
The Civil War was directly related to the issue of slavery, as it was fought over the abolition of slavery in the United States.
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