"faction" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Unlike most other Northerners, who still advocated peaceful resistance to the pro-slavery faction, Brown demanded violent action in response to Southern aggression.
- Jim Lane was a main free-state leader, and Lecompton was previously the capital of the opposing pro-slavery faction.
- The convention was marred by violence by pro-slavery factions.
- Violence by pro-slavery factions marred the gathering, but the fracas enabled the three brothers to fully convert their parents to the abolitionist cause.
- There was agitation by pro-slavery factions to allow slavery.
- As the years progressed Haïti only became a bigger target for scorn amongst the pro-slavery factions in the south.
- The effect of these actions, was to cut the pro-slavery faction remaining in the Indiana Territory in half.
- Each new territory was to decide the fate of slavery within its boundaries, but this compromise merely served to fuel animosity between free soil and pro-slavery factions.
- Through the machinery of the territory and violence, the pro-slavery faction attempted to force an unpopular pro-slavery constitution through the state.
- In this bid, he was supported by pro-slavery factions led by Joseph Lane.
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