The Whigs and the Democrats wanted to keep slavery out of national political discussion in order to prevent what they thought would happen and did happen: a split in the United States with one being slave states only and the other being free states only.
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do u have any answers to pick out of ???
I would say answer number 4
Answer: they were objects that belonged to their masters and not considered people or citizens.
Because of widespread fear of a strong central government at the time they were written and strong loyalties among Americans to their own state as opposed to any national government during the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation purposely kept the national government as weak as possible and the states as independent as possible. However, this led to many of the problems that became apparent once the Articles took effect.