Compare And Contrast The North And South Views On Slavery

The south's view on slavery was way different from the one in the north because they thought slavery was a good thing because their economy depended on slavery. In the north they had a complete different opinion on the topic of slavery the north believed it was wrong and it should be stopped this is why in the north there was a lot of abolitionists groups. The south would constantly say that everything they said was fake and that they are liers. This is why compromise started to break down because the U.S could not hold the balance between the slave states and the free states. The more and more the U.S would try to keep the balance the more it got difficult to control. The U.S gained the new lands gained from the louisiana purchase and the mexican secession which caused the south to want slavery in the new states but the north wanted it banned their. The more and more the south would try to get new states to become slave states the north would try to prevent it from ever happening this is why the compromise broke down.

The compromise of 1820 was the
These new states are the states that the union won from mexico after the mexican american war. This compromise also made the Fugitive slave law which meant that anyone accused of being a runaway slave was sent back to slavery .The Dred Scott case was a case that ended in the supreme court. Dred scott was a slave that wanted his freedom so he took it to court. He basically sued for his freedom and he did not do it just for himself he did this for his wife and his two daughters. The person he sued was sandford and this case was called the Dred Scott decision. But during the case in the supreme court sanford said that he was property and he did not have the right to sue him. Later sanford said that property was property and it could not be taken away. Dred Scott lost the case to sanford because of the property rights