Question

Explain why the South was interested in the western territories.
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Answer 1

Organized to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories (borrowed this idea from the Free Soil Party). Southerners, however, realized that this party's view on slavery was a long-term threat to their way of life. "Bleeding Kansas" Popular sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska Act did not work well at all.

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Answer 2

At the start of the Civil War there were 23 Union states and 11 Confederate states. The Territories did not belong to either the North or the South, but represented a great deal of land and economic promise.