(Republicans)
Slavery was abolished in the United States territories in June 1862. Any new territory was not to have possession of any slaves after this date.
So they wouldn't keep getting outvoted in Congress
Under the 1850 Compromise, New Mexico and Utah were allowed in as slave-states, in exchange for California as free soil. After that, Kansas and Nebraska were to be admitted on a local vote on slavery ('Popular Sovereignty'). This resulted in bloodshed that foreshadowed the Civil War.
Consider this: Exactly which "people of those territories" wanted expansion of slavery. Definitely not any of the black people. Actually, nearly all the lobbying for slavery came from people living in the South who were anxious to gain more power in the House and Senate for their cause.
Slavery would have been permitted in these territories. (Don't know if it happened.)
republicans
(Republicans)
The Free-Soil Party wanted the western territories to be free from slavery.
Abraham Lincoln completely opposed the spread of slavery to western territories.
Abraham Lincoln completely opposed the spread of slavery to western territories.
The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.
The Republicans
The Republicans
False.
To stop the spread of slavery in the western territories.
They didn't want let let slavery spread to the western territories
The event that determined the status of slavery during the 1850s was the Wilmot Proviso. It was also a major cause of the Civil War.