HIST 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pottawatomie Massacre, Wilmot Proviso, Missouri Compromise
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Expansion of slavery in the territories was the issue: questions to keep in mind: b. i. How did the mexican war intensify the problem of slavery in the territories? b. ii. What was the effect of sectional reactions? b. iii. What events between 1857 and 1860 hurtled the nation toward. How did they convince the south that it ultimately had no other choice than to leave the union? b. iv. Looking at the larger picture, how did both the north and the. The issue: slavery in the territories: the importance of precedence, constitutional vagueness b. i. The northern position: the wilmot proviso proposed that slavery in any of the territory acquired from the war with mexico would be prohibited. b. ii. The southern position: john c. calhoun asserted that the. Federal government was a pact among the states. Therefore, the territories were owned by all of the states combined.
