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Why did many Northern members of Congress oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Because it could have allowed both those states to practise slavery, in contravention of the Missouri Compromise. (By 1854, it was getting much more difficult to create new slave-states at all.)
Why did the founding fathers not abolish slavery?
The founding fathers of the United States did not abolish slavery right away because it was something that they found useful. There were many slaves working in state houses in Pennsylvania at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed. Many families had slaves to do the cooking and cleaning in the northern states.
Why were many abolitionists against the Kansas-Nebraska act?
Because it might have allowed new slave-states.
Who was president when slavery was signed into law?
There was no law passed to make slavery. Slavery is a custom that has been around for many centuries including ancient Egypt. In the United States, slaves were first sold in 1619. The Pilgrims came to Massachusetts in 1620. That was over 100 years before we had the American Revolution and a president.
How might Abraham Lincolns victory in the election of 1860 lead to future problems?
Many people in the north wanted no part of slavery anywhere in the country. Southerners wanted slavery because they thought it helped production of crops etc. There are contrasting beliefs. Abraham Lincoln was from the North and a proponent of Federal rights and powers to limit slavery. The southern states wanted strong state powers and rights and weaker federal powers and rights. Slavery was a States Right issue and the federal government should not interfere. The northern states wanted the exact opposite, strong federal powers and rights and weaker state powers and rights. The right of the Federal government to abolish Slavery should trump any so-called States Rights. So the southern states voted to secede from or leave the United States also know as the Union. The US Civil War was thus started.
