The Issue Of Slavery In The Westward Expansion
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One of the bitterest fruits of westward expansion was the intensification
of the slavery extension issue. I support this statement.
Westward expansion intensified the slavery extension issue like
nothing else could have. It all began simply enough in 1787 when the
Ordinance of 1787, better known ....
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economics. Although this theory was popular it proves to be fantasy. This
method of thinking and the Northwest Ordinance started our young country
down the dark road that would end in the War of the Rebellion.
Extension of slavery next became an argument and hot topic at the
Philadelphia Convention in the fall of 1787. The northern delegates “
detested the slave trade and wanted it to end” (pg. 187). The slave states
came out ahead in this battle as they got congress to agre ....
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