 THE BIG QUESTION DURING THIS TIME WAS WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS MORAL FOR ONE PERSON TO OWN ANOTHER.  BY 1819, SLAVERY WAS THE PRIMARY ISSUE IN AMERICA

 IN 1819, THE U.S HAD 22 STATES  IN 1803, PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON BOUGHT A HUGE AREA WEST OF THE MS RIVER KNOWN AS THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE  11 WERE “FREE STATES”(DIDN’T ALLOW SLAVERY)  11 WERE “SLAVE STATES”(ALLOWED SLAVERY)

 BY 1817, MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WERE AGAINST SLAVERY.  WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON PUBLISHED AN ANTI SLAVERY NEWSPAPER CALLED THE LIBERATOR.

 AT THIS TIME, EVERYTIME A NEW STATE WAS TO BE ADDED, THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY AROSE.  STATES WERE ALLOWED TO VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT TO HAVE SLAVERY.  THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS FORMED TO OPPOSE THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY. › THE DRED SCOTT DECISION RULED THAT SLAVERY COULD NOT BE BARRED FROM THE TERRITORIES.

 POPULAR SOVERIGNTY EVENTUALLY LED TO CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS. (This was known as the Border War or “Bleeding Kansas”. › Popular Sovereignty: a vote by those living there.

 MS supported the right for slave owners to take their slaves anywhere in the U.S.  Some southerners began to believe that secession (withdrawal from the Union) was the only way to prevent the abolition of slavery.