Slavery was a big part of the United States. The North and the South made a compromise, which lead to the Missouri Compromise in 1820. The Missouri Compromise banned slavery in the western territories. The South saw this as a threat to slavery. They did not think slaves had right, so if a slave was to escape to a free state they would still be the property of their owners and if they were found they had to be returned to their rightful owner. Congress had reached a series of agreements. Missouri was a slave state and Maine would be a free state, with slavery being in the new western lands abandoned hope for ending war. The battlefield and the cotton famine influenced European attitudes towards slavery. The French and British mills wanted the American cotton that was grown by slaves. Most Europeans abolished antislavery. Lincoln wanted to keep the border slave states and the Northern Democrats as his alliance. He did not have the emancipation of slaves on his agenda from the outset of the war. They had a strategy, the only way for slaves to get emancipation would be to make them be a part of the Civil War. The constitution would determine liberty on both sides. The South knew that slavery would continue to exist just as it did with the founding fathers over the
Slavery was a big part of the United States. The North and the South made a compromise, which lead to the Missouri Compromise in 1820. The Missouri Compromise banned slavery in the western territories. The South saw this as a threat to slavery. They did not think slaves had right, so if a slave was to escape to a free state they would still be the property of their owners and if they were found they had to be returned to their rightful owner. Congress had reached a series of agreements. Missouri was a slave state and Maine would be a free state, with slavery being in the new western lands abandoned hope for ending war. The battlefield and the cotton famine influenced European attitudes towards slavery. The French and British mills wanted the American cotton that was grown by slaves. Most Europeans abolished antislavery. Lincoln wanted to keep the border slave states and the Northern Democrats as his alliance. He did not have the emancipation of slaves on his agenda from the outset of the war. They had a strategy, the only way for slaves to get emancipation would be to make them be a part of the Civil War. The constitution would determine liberty on both sides. The South knew that slavery would continue to exist just as it did with the founding fathers over the