It didn't expand west. The Kansas Nebraska Act made sure that it didn't go further. California came into the union in 1850 a free state. There never was slavery in the western states.
Plantation slavery expanded a lot in the British colonies of North America in the 18th century. Some people also called for the abolition of slavery.
As the US expanded, the states brought into the country had to choose whether or not they would allow slavery, forcing them to take sides in the Civil War.
Between 1854 and 1861, the area of territory open to slavery expanded significantly due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed new territories to decide on the legality of slavery through popular sovereignty. This led to violent conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas" as pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed into the territories. Additionally, the Dred Scott decision in 1857 further entrenched the status of slavery, declaring that Congress had no power to regulate slavery in the territories. By 1861, the political landscape was increasingly polarized, with more territories and states aligning with the institution of slavery.
The basis of the economy in the Southern American colonies was tobacco and cotton exports. As the colonies expanded westward, and later when much of the South was part of the USA, cotton exports expanded. There was demand for cotton in England as well as in the New England textile mills.
Texan independence, achieved in 1836, heightened tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States. The annexation of Texas in 1845 as a slave state exacerbated these tensions, as it expanded the territory where slavery was permitted. This conflict over the extension of slavery into new territories contributed to the larger sectional divisions that ultimately led to the Civil War. Additionally, the desire to expand slavery into new states fueled the debate over states' rights and federal authority, further polarizing the nation.
A) slavery revived and expanded
slavery revived and expanded
Slavery had expanded into the Louisiana Territory in 1818, when the Missouri Compromise was declared by Henry Clay.
Plantation slavery expanded a lot in the British colonies of North America in the 18th century. Some people also called for the abolition of slavery.
the expansion of slavery
the expansion of slavery
expansion of slavery
the expansion of slavery
The invention of Eli Whitney's "Cotton Gin" expanded the plantation system and slavery.
No, slavery existed in Africa before Portuguese traders arrived. However, the transatlantic slave trade expanded the scale and brutality of slavery in Africa.
The cotton-gin. It vastly expanded the production and export of cotton, and made slavery seem like an essential element in American prosperity.
The institution of slavery expanded and intensified in the South.