1. Causes of the Civil War
In addition, Congress banned slavery from the territory acquired by the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern boundary. ... The spread of slavery also intensified challenges from Northerners who opposed the system on moral, political, and economical grounds. The rapid growth of a non-slaveholding and increasingly antislavery North endangered the political autonomy of the slaveholding South. ...
The formation of these new states gave rise to a new question: should these new states welcome slavery within their boundaries? ... Furthermore, the latitude line of 36-30 (the southern border of Missouri) was set, and it was declared that any new territory north of this boundary would be non-slavery land. ... Therefore the South and their prominent political leaders were staunch defenders, and promoters of slavery. ... I would demonstrate what I had been saying all along - that popular sovereignty was a political fiction, a lullaby designed to put northerners to sleep and clear the way fo...
Although the Wilmot Proviso did not become law, the issue it raised - the extension of slavery into the western territories - contributed to the growth of political factionalism. ... The treaty also settled the Texas border dispute in favor of the United States, placing the Texas-Mexico boundary at the Rio Grande. ...
The Republican Party's role in changing the south politically and societally, and how the definition of freedom changed over time through 1860 and 1877. ... In the 1850s the Whig Party submitted to the sectionalizing effects of the slavery issue while also forgoing to operate as a national political party. ... One of these different outlooks on slavery occurred in Kansas, where the question was whether the new territory would be slave owning or free which erupted into violent and political turmoil. ... They felt if confining slavery within its current boundaries that this institution a...
In response to the South, the North argued that "Slavery itself was a moral and political evil that was contrary to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, and that it had been tolerated in the constitution only by necessity and ought to be restricted" This everlasting debate lasted until the next year when the Missouri Compromise was introduced. ... Secondly, the compromise excluded slavery from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of southern boundary of Missouri. ...
Shelby made it clear that woman should not cross the boundary between social and domestic dealings. ... Now, John, I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow (89). ...
