SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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Question
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slavery should be expanded.
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the federal government should give land to those in need.
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Native Americans should be given free land to compensate for thewrongs done to them.
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slavery should be excluded from the western territories.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -A principal reason for opposing slavery’s expansion was a fear of competition with Southern slaveholders. Northerners who wanted to own land in the West feared that they would not be able to compete economically with slave labor. This led to the party’s call for free labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -The FREE SOIL PARTY of Cuyahoga County was organized in the summer of 1848 as part of a national third-party movement which supported free grants of public land to settlers and opposed the extension of slavery to the western territories.
Detailed explanation-4: -In contrast to abolitionists, who opposed slavery on moral grounds, most Free-Soilers opposed slavery because they felt that white laborers should not have to compete with-nor be “degraded” by-the presence of black slaves in the new territories.
Detailed explanation-5: -Those who supported antislavery fervently opposed its expansion westward because, they argued, slavery would degrade white labor and reduce its value, cast a stigma upon hard-working whites, and deprive them of a chance to advance economically.