New problems about the spread of slavery came up because the Missouri compromise stated that North of the Missouri line would be free and south would be slave up to the Rocky Mountains. This would mean that America would have less slave states which would mean the South would lose power in the Senate which annoyed the South.
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
Franklin Pierce supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act which cancelled the Missouri Compromise leading to a new rise of the debate about the spread of slavery in the Western Territories. After the outbreak of the Civil War he declared support for the Confederacy.
Slavery spread all over America But I amn' t sure where to
because there was no slavery there
The Cotton Gin created by Eli Whitney caused the spread of slavery.
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
New problems about the spread of slavery came up because the Missouri compromise stated that North of the Missouri line would be free and south would be slave up to the Rocky Mountains. This would mean that America would have less slave states which would mean the South would lose power in the Senate which annoyed the South.
New problems about the spread of slavery came up because the Missouri compromise stated that North of the Missouri line would be free and south would be slave up to the Rocky Mountains. This would mean that America would have less slave states which would mean the South would lose power in the Senate which annoyed the South.
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
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It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
It would allow slavery to spread north of the line established by the Missouri compromise. - Novanet
The Missouri Compromise was the first attempt to ease the looming crisis over slavery. It effectively prevented the spread of slavery into new states but did nothing to eliminate slavery in current slave states.
The parallel of Missouri's Southern border was the official reference-point for the new Western territories when they became states of the union. Anywhere north of that line - all the way to the Pacific - slavery was illegal.
Lincoln was only 11 years old when then Missouri Compromise was made. I doubt that he had any strong feelings about it. He did not regularly go the school-- he may not even have heard about it at the time.
He said that he didn't want slavery to spread
It drew a line in the sand - anywhere North of that line, slavery would be illegal. This worked well enough, but it only applied to the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. The vast new territories acquired from Mexico in 1847 needed a new compromise. This one did not work.