0
Still curious? Ask our experts.
Chat with our AI personalities
Taiga
Blake
BeauAdd your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How did the South react to the agitation of the abolitionists?
Taylor Swift did cause she is awesome
Why were abolitionists opposed to westward expansion?
During the preface of Manifest Destiny, Americans were united in the idea that expansion would cause the country to flourish and thrive, but as sectional tensions between North and South began to increase, the North and other abolitionists started to reject Manifest Destiny. This is because the introduction of new slave states into the country would cause the North to lose their power within the nation.
How did northerners respond to the fugitive slave act?
With anger. They greatly resented being turned into unpaid slave-catchers, and this brought many new recruits to the cause of Abolitionism. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written as a protest against the Act. It drove the two sides further apart, and was a major cause of the Civil War.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was widely read by colonists What essential idea did it express to further the cause of separation?
It attacked the wickedness of the English monarchy.
Did the British expect their actions to cause the colonists to unite against them?
No, because they knew that none of the colonists could stop them from taxing on them.also because they thought that they were the controller of the colonies and the people would do as said.
