Why did many Northerners believe that Southern slaveholding interests had gained control of the national government?
What will be an ideal response?
First, Northerners saw the Kansas-Nebraska act, which included the repeal of the ban on slavery north of 36° 30', as a chance for the South, which Northerners had begun to call the "slave power," to spread slavery, and thereby spread its influence and the "curse" of slavery, to the North. The resulting violence in Kansas demonstrated to Northerners that Southerners would go to great lengths, including using illegitimate election practices, to bypass popular sovereignty. The Dred Scott decision, which granted inviolate property rights to slaveholders and forbade any government interference with slavery, increased the sense that Southern interests controlled the government.
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