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What determined the slave status of a newborn in colonial times?
A baby born to a slave was automatically a slave. They were often sold away from mom as young as 3-4 years old.
How was the question of slave labor in America primarily seen in the 1850s?
The question of slave labor isn America was primarily seen differently by people in he south and north in the 1850s. Most southerners did not give much thought to slavery and accepted it s a way of life. In the north, movements were in place that opposed the extension of slavery.
Who admitted one slave and one free state to the union and fixed the boundary between slave and free territories?
Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850 sought to settle the divisive issues of?
The compromise of 1850 was meant to end a conflict between slave states of the South and free states of the North in America. This dispute was over the status of territories that were gained during the Mexican-American war.
What was the causes of the Compromise of 1850?
The acquisition of vast new territories from Mexico. The South wanted to spread slavery into these new territories. But it was getting harder to create new slave-states, and Congress had to make a big gesture of appeasement to the South in the form of the Fugitive Slave Act.
