The text authors conclude that "it was the issue of slave expansion--and not the morality of slavery--that would . . . lead the United States to civil war." Write an argument with specific evidence that supports this conclusion
What will be an ideal response?
As a political issue, slavery was absent from debate after 1820 until its expansion became an issue during the Mexican War. Free Soilers were not racial egalitarians, they were primarily motivated by a desire to keep blacks out of the west--ban slavery from the west, and their goal was accomplished. In the Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, etc., the key debate was over the authority of the federal government to ban slavery from the territories versus its obligation to protect slavery in the territories.
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What new ideas did the Chinese philosopher Lü Liuliang develop about the political system?
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The main impetus behind the rise of the Safavid dynasty was ________
A) ethnic animosity B) religious revival C) a desire to restore the Mongol Empire D) a burst of commercial activity
The relationship between political authority and religious proselytizing was
a. closer in the New World than on the Iberian peninsula. b. more distant in the New World than on the European continent. c. defined by the pope, who insisted on political control in the New World. d. not influenced by national economic goals.