As Americans spread westward in the early 1800s, new states came into existence. In 1820 the status of slavery became the central issue in the creation of Missouri and Maine as states, which was settled in the Missouri Compromise. This led to an increase in tensions between the North and South. Some northerners opposed slavery and the expansion of slavery because it threatened to limit the number of jobs available for free whites. In the 1850s, northerners who wanted to move west did not want to have to compete with neighbors who had slaves. Others, influenced by the Second Great Awakening, opposed it on moral grounds. Radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison advocated immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery in his newspaper, “The Liberator”. While many northerners did not initially share in Garrison’s views, the North became more opposed to slavery following the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s
As Americans spread westward in the early 1800s, new states came into existence. In 1820 the status of slavery became the central issue in the creation of Missouri and Maine as states, which was settled in the Missouri Compromise. This led to an increase in tensions between the North and South. Some northerners opposed slavery and the expansion of slavery because it threatened to limit the number of jobs available for free whites. In the 1850s, northerners who wanted to move west did not want to have to compete with neighbors who had slaves. Others, influenced by the Second Great Awakening, opposed it on moral grounds. Radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison advocated immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery in his newspaper, “The Liberator”. While many northerners did not initially share in Garrison’s views, the North became more opposed to slavery following the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s