Answer: Other congressmen argued that the congress did not yet have sufficient constitutional power to enact this law. Following passage of the fourteenth Amendment in 1868 congress ratified the 1866 ACT in 1870.
There was tension in the politics of the nation which were largely due to differences in the economies of the North and the South. For the South, slavery was used as a labor source hence they supported slavery. The North on the other hand was opposed to slavery as it was largely urbanized. Different regions led to the creations of different economies.
The size of the Atlantic slave trade dramatically transformed African societies. The slave trade brought about a negative impact on African societies and led to the long-term impoverishment of West Africa
The Corpus Juris Civilis, the founding document for many European law codes, is most closely associated with the Magna Carta, which came far before it.
Because popular sovereignty was well supported because it allowed the local citizens of a territory to decide if slavery was to be allowed or illegal. Stephen A. Douglas pushed for popular sovereignty during the 1840's.
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