"slavery" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Calhoun proposed that Congress should not exclude slavery from territories but let each state choose for itself whether it would allow slaves within its borders.
- He opposed Tennessee Congressman Andrew Johnson's Homestead Bill, fearing it would create more territories that excluded slavery.
- In the Territory of Nebraska the fight to exclude slavery from within the territorial boundaries spread from the Senate to the press and to the pulpit.
- A crucial moment came when Lincoln asked Douglas if the people of a territory could exclude slavery before the territory became a state.
- Nebraska residents, many of them migrants from the Northern United States, chose to exclude slavery from their territory.
- Alabama delegates to the Democratic convention were to oppose any candidate supporting either the Proviso or Popular Sovereignty (which allowed territories to exclude slavery at any point)
- The ordinance defined the boundaries of the future states, excluded slavery, and required that 60,000 inhabitants be present for statehood.
- Following the U.S. victory over Mexico, Northerners attempted to exclude slavery from conquered territories in the Wilmot Proviso; it never passed.
- In 1848, he introduced a resolution that recommended New Mexico and California have territorial governments which excluded slavery.
- For example, in the Lincoln-Douglas debates Lincoln asked Douglas whether the people in the territories could, in any lawful way, exclude slavery before the formation of a state constitution.
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