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Why did the south want western territories to become slave states?
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∙ 12y ago
So they wouldn't keep getting outvoted in Congress
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoBecause they wanted to expand slavery and the plantations making them bigger, creating possiblity of more money and more dlminant slavery union
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How many free states existed in 1850?
18 states were free states, 15 states were slave states 33 states overall
What did the south stand to gain as a reault of The Missouri Compromise?
The assurance that there would be no new slave-states North of the Missouri line.
How did supporting the Kansas-Nebraska Act benefit the South?
Many southerners supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it allowed the citizens of these two newly formed states to choose, by popular vote, whether or not to be a slave state. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854.
What are the slave states that didnt secede called?
there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war
How did the idea of popular sovereignty in kansas and nabraska territories contradict the Missouri comprimise of 1820?
The Missouri Compromise had stated that all states above the 36 30 parallel would be free, and all below it would be slave states. This had established a begrudging peace between the North and the South, which lasted until the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the compromise and introduced the concept of popular sovereignty in determining whether a state would be slave or free.
Which type of state would be in the majority in the territories that would presumably become states?
Slave states.
Abolitionists often opposed annexation of western territories because they?
...feared admission of the new slave states.
Why did the north oppose the war with Mexico?
the whigs did not want conquered territory to become slave states
How did the Missouri affect the spread of slavery?
It drew a line through western territories to determine future free and slave states
Why did Northerners chose to not support the war with Mexico?
They were afraid that all acquired territories would become slave states.
Why was Lincoln seen as an enemy to the south?
Because he would not allow any of the new territories to become slave-states.
What issue did The Missouri Compromise?
The decision of whether to admit the new South Western territories to the Union as slave-states or free soil. The Compromise allowed no new slave-states North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.
What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?
To end an argument about slavery in the territories (apex)
What did the supreme. court rule in the dred Scott case?
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
What did the supreme court ruling the dred Scott case establish?
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
What territories was originally destined to become part of the slave territory of the US?
cuba
What are the Territories was originally destined to become part of the slave territory of the US?
cuba
