SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
TENSION OVER SLAVERY IN THE 1850S
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Question
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whether or not new states should be allowed to continue slavery
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whether or not Congress should allow more states to repeal the Missouri Compromise
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whether or not the Missouri Compromise benefited the South
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whether or not the tensions over slavery would continue to rise
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Detailed explanation-1: -Missouri’s Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -One political response to slavery during 1850-55 was the idea of popular sovereignty. Pop sov is a broken system that allows individuals to decide. With the compromise of 1850 some states were allowed admittance into the union with the idea of them deciding whether they would be a free or slave state.
Detailed explanation-3: -Battles emerged over the westward expansion of slavery and over the role of the federal government in protecting the interests of enslavers. Northern workers felt that slavery suppressed wages and stole land that could have been used by poor white Americans to achieve economic independence.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout American history, tension has existed between several regions, but the competing views of the institution of slavery held by Northerners and Southerners was the preeminent sectional split and the defining political issue in the United States from the founding of the country until the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-5: -Popular sovereignty-Southerners felt slaves were to be treated as property throughout the Union; northerners felt federal government should decide to prohibit slavery in all territories. Immigration-Some northerners left as the party tried to recruit immigrants to their cause.