DBQ: Political Disputes: 1820-1860 Since the time the founding fathers had founded America, there have been new ways of keeping order, & laws have came & gone. America back then wasn’t as big as it is today, people have fought for what they believed in many times & America has won many wars to make it what it is today. Over 150 years ago, people in the United States had owned slaves. Eventually, people have started to disagree with that lifestyle. Soon, the compromise between the slave states and the free states had been starting to break down with all the new states coming in, the balance between slave states & free states is uneven, the United States decided that the new states should be able to have slaves if they wanted, but the South disagreed & the North had to figure out a way to revive the compromise without the Southern States from seceding because they might feel threatened because they could lose their slaves.…show more content… B]. It was decided, that the Northern States are free & all people no matter what color will be free, & in the Southern States, African Americans put against their will to be put to work in cotton & other agricultural production. Slaves were African Americans because it was thought that white people were the superior race. The South had a strong opinion that they were right about slavery and the North was wrong [Doc. D], & thought that secession was the only way to get what they wanted & to not lose their slaves. Free society was despised in the south & wanted nothing to do with it, & that all the dirty work should be put to the slaves [Doc.
