The Issue Of Slavery In The Westward Expansion

Part I of Essay
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 Ordina ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 agree that they would not interfere with the slave trade until 1808 and the south obtained a fugitive slave law. The only victory the nort ....