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What constitutional amendment prohibited slavery?
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution outlaws slavery. (See related Link below, for more information.)Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Should slavery be allowed to expand into the territories if the people of those territories want it?
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.
The were strongly determined to stop the spread of slavery into the Western territories?
(Republicans)
Was there slavery in Utah and New Mexico after Compromise of 1850?
Slavery would have been permitted in these territories. (Don't know if it happened.)
Which territories were able to choose by popular sovereignty whether or not to allow slavery?
New Mexico and Utah
