Slavery was implicitly recognised in the original Constitution in provisions such as Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, commonly known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, which provided that three-fifths of each state's enslaved population (“other persons”) was to be added to its free population for the purposes of apportioning seats in the United States House of Representatives and direct taxes among the states.
When Texas wanted to join the Union right after becoming independent in 1836, one of the reasons why the annexation was blocked was because Texas would have been a slave state. ... The people in Texas wanted slavery to continue, which would assist with the growing of cotton.
The <span>navigation acts & mercantilism were aimed to limit the trade within
the empire and had put many restrictions, the reason was that the British did
not want to lose the valuable gold and assets to foreigners, the Sugar Act and
such restrictions forced the colonists away from foreign products and this
caused the colonies to anger. The result was a great dissatisfaction against
British and eventually the Revolutionary war.</span>
Turkish Jonturkler, coalition of various reform groups that led revolutionary movement against the authorial regime of Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, which culminated in the establishment of a constitution government.
In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the “tyranny” of President Andrew Jackson, had shown itself incapable of coping with the national crisis over slavery. With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories by popular sovereignty, the Whigs disintegrated. By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.
