Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. There was some fear that, in the event of strong antislavery legislation, the Southern states might withdraw from the Union altogether. ... Through a Southern rigging of the ballot, a state constitution passed permitting slavery, despite free-soilers outnumbering proslavery citizens by three to one. ...
The practical maintenance of slavery was requiring an expansion of federal power and Southern "slave states", while advocating states rights, demanded federal intervention in support of slavery. ... Therefore his election victory created a crisis, as many southern Democrats feared that it would be only a matter of time before Lincoln would move to kill slavery in the South. ... This meant that Lincoln, even before being sworn in as president, was faced with the rebellion of 7 southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and later four more who joined as host...
Slavery was the main issue that divided the Northern and Southern states; but another, more complicated issue was at hand. ... Furthermore, the latitude line of 36-30 (the southern border of Missouri) was set, and it was declared that any new territory north of this boundary would be non-slavery land. ... Slavery was not only an institution in the Southern states, but it was part of a lifestyle that had been going on since the founding of the United States of America. ... In fact, some northerners believed the exact opposite of what their southern counterparts thought. ... The compromise a...
He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million northern men to face a southern army of over 2 million soldiers. In battles fought from Virginia to California (but mainly in Virginia, in the Mississippi River Valley, and along the border states) a great civil war tore the United States apart. ...
Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy, depended on slavery to support their economy. ... The main debate between the North and the South on the eve of the war was whether slavery should be permitted in the Western territories recently acquired during the Mexican War (1846-1848), including New Mexico, part of California, and Utah. ...
Kenneth Stampp was a professor of History at the University of California, Berkley. ... He is best known for his revised assessments of three central chapters in the American experience: slavery, the coming of the Civil War, and Southern Reconstruction. ...
Due to northern focus on industry and southern focus on agriculture, sectionalism developed among the states. ... The Compromise of 1850 was created to appease both regions; it stated that California was to enter the Union as a free state but that Utah and New Mexico would decide upon the issue based on the concept of popular sovereignty (Document C). ...
