Slavery has been an ongoing issue since the 1600, until the real conflicted arise in the late 1840s, over slavery in certain territories. The Constitution only allowed the federal government to end the international slave trade, but it could …show more content…
Both the Democrat and Whig parties’ strategies appeal to Northerners who wanted to control slavery, and to Southerners who wanted to protect it. Democrats tried to revive the Manifest Destiny issue in 1854, by revisiting the issue of slavery in the territories. It was already too late for the Whigs party who was too weak and divided. Thus that January a Democrat Senator Stephen A. Douglas plan to expand territories in hopes of a railroad being built for the Pacific with Chicago, but he thought that the slavery issue would slow down the process. Douglas thought that he would win the presidency in 1856, for he was the democratic nominee. Still needing the vote of the south left him without a choice he had to repeal the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska Act “repeal the Missouri Compromise, split the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, and allowed its settlers to accept or reject slavery by popular sovereignty.” The second party system was destroyed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The new Republican party of 1854, became the anti-Nebraska coalition they were “(anti-slavery) because it degraded free labor, lowered wages, and working conditions for whites.” The party thought that American society should be made of middle class people and farmers. As well as becoming a “property owner, celebrating republican liberty, and individual