Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of two of the following: The Missouri Compromise The Mexican War Compromise Of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act <Tab/> <Tab/>The moral and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of The Mexican War and The Kansas-Nebraska Act are very conflicting. With the upset in balance …
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…unaffected by the Missouri Compromise thus proposing that the Compromise of 1850 had taken the place of the Missouri Compromise everywhere. The concession was widely attacked by southern congressmen and the bill was viewed as a plot to turn the territory into a "dreary region of the despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves." These attacks by antislavery northerners united the south by turning the bill into an issue of sectional pride as well as slavery expansion.