Most white Americans saw slavery as mainly a local issue
slavery became an issue many years before the civil war.
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
The major issue in the era of the democrats between 1800-1860 was slavery and high tariffs.
slaves were farmers.
Kansas-Nebraska Act A+ answer
Kansas-Nebraska Act A+ answer
he made them eat bugs and killed them
Stephen Douglas believed in popular sovereignty, allowing residents of each territory to decide the issue of slavery for themselves through voting. He proposed this as a solution to the slavery issue in the territories, particularly during the debates surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
It was a Northern State that was pro slavery and anti Confederacy. It did not view the civil war as a slave issue. It considered the civil war a states rights issue.
The solution was, to divide Clay's plan into a series of measures that Congress could vote on separately
Uncle Tom's Cabin
No it was not an issue their!
The north considered the main issue in the war to be slavery. The south considered the main issue in the war to be state's rights. So as you see they weren't even fighting over the same issues!
The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.