Kansas Abraska Act And The Mexican-American War

Slavery was a very big topic of debate in the United States during the 1800s. What typically happened was, the northern population was anti-slavery, and the southern population was pro-slavery. With the expansion of the United States' borders, came the expansion of slavery. Many groups of people were widely opposed to this expansion of slavery, and in events like the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Mexican-American War, many arguments arose regarding the moral and political effect of this expansion. The moral argument of both the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Mexican-American War, was that slavery is simply not right. The whole practice of trading, selling, and forcing humans to work, and justifying it because their skin is a different color, in the eyes of the abolitionists is not morally correct. They believed the treatment, and practice of slavery was inhumane and they wanted to stop the spread of slavery. …show more content…
The main political purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to preserve the union. The unity of the United States has also been in danger because of the geographic divide created by slavery, and this act was created to make sure the southern states would not split. Rather than only creating Nebraska (which would most likely be a free state and throw off the balance of free versus slave states), the act was passed which created Kansas, which would most likely become a slave state. Had Kansas not been created the southern states would have gotten mad, and possibly split from the