The Road to the Civil War

It was safe for colored people to live freely

Colored people were encouraged to seek help from the police

Colored people faced threats and were advised to be cautious

There were no laws affecting colored people

Expansion created new markets that weakened Southern agricultural production

Expansion forced the nation to decide whether slavery would extend into new lands

Western settlement reduced political power in the South

Western lands were largely unsuited to plantation agriculture

avoided to maintain unity among the states

resolved immediately by national consensus

settled through strict enforcement of abolitionist demands

determined by Congress before ratification

the rise of the Second Great Awakening

restrictions placed on slaveowners in the Northwest Territory

the invention of the cotton gin

the emergence of wage labor in the North

proof that enslaved people faced fewer hardships than Northern workers

evidence of major planter opposition to the domestic slave trade

an accurate reflection of living conditions on most plantations

an attempt to justify slavery as a benevolent institution

Southern states feared that free Black populations would form alliances with Northern abolitionists

Free African Americans were viewed as competition by immigrant laborers

Federal law required states to restrict the rights of free African Americans

Republicans pressured Southern states to prevent free Black migration