Northern lawmakers were hesitant to go to war with Mexico because in the North people began to question the system as they increasingly viewed it as immoral and believed that it was wrong for person to enslave another. By starting a war with Mexico, they believe that the new territories would create more slave states and perpetuate the system further. Aside from that, President James Polk also wanted to acquire the territories of California, New Mexico and Oregon. Eventually war broke out when American troops to the Rio Grande and Nueces River regard as disputed territories.
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C + D
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The right to vote- right known as woman suffarage.
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Its cause they wanted to protect from indiviual investments
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According to the argument of Douglas, the issues of slavery would endure as long as states are able to decide their laws for themselves.
<h3>Douglas's argument on slavery</h3>
According to Douglas, the states of the new country were the ones that had the powers to decide on the fact that they wanted the institution of slavery to remain or not.
Lincoln's argument on the other hand was that the use of slaves had to be stopped in the United states.
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