With the slavery issue based on popular sovereignty, the territories would become slave or free depending on which side had more votes. Both antislavery Northerners and proslavery Southerners scrambled to settle Kansas. One fierce slavery opponent, John Brown, killed five proslavery people in a raid and started a small civil war that killed some 200 people from both sides.
Just a few, the US has changed in that is has stopped being isolationist, gotten rid of slavery, and has become a world power.
Not much controversy at the time, more later in the decades after the war. There are many myths and misstatement of facts surrounding this event during WW2.
Mostly violent measures. Although estimates vary, probably over 3 million people met with a violent death because of the Cultural Revolution.
The Harpers Ferry raid showed how close the nation was to going to war over slavery.
free soil party
Kansas became a center of controversy over slavery due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed settlers in those territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This led to violent conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas," as pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions flooded into the territory to influence the decision. The struggle highlighted the deep national divisions over slavery, making Kansas a symbolic battleground for the broader conflict that would ultimately lead to the Civil War.
The Compromise of 1850.
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
The slavery controversy refers to the heated debate and conflict surrounding the institution of slavery in the United States leading up to the Civil War in the 19th century. It involved arguments over the morality, legality, and economic impact of slavery, ultimately leading to a war between the Northern and Southern states. The controversy ultimately resulted in the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Every state that was a state during the the Civil War.
The Thee-Fifths Compromise
Constitutional Unionist John Bell
Slavery
The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Constitutional Unionist John Bell
The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)