slave power controversy

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antebellum political conflict historical event political controversy

The slave power controversy was an antebellum political conflict in the United States centered on Northern fears that a small group of Southern slaveholders was conspiring to dominate the federal government and expand slavery into new territories.

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Label	Occurrences
Slave Power	2
slave power controversy canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	antebellum political conflict ⓘ historical event ⓘ political controversy ⓘ
causeOf	sectional tension between North and South ⓘ
centralIssue	expansion of slavery into new territories ⓘ slavery ⓘ
contributedTo	collapse of the Second Party System ⓘ polarization over slavery ⓘ rise of the Republican Party ⓘ
documentedIn	Northern newspapers ⓘ Republican Party platforms of the 1850s ⓘ antislavery speeches ⓘ
hasLocation	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasNotableFigure	Abraham Lincoln ⓘ Charles Sumner ⓘ Franklin Pierce ⓘ Frederick Douglass ⓘ Henry Clay ⓘ James Buchanan ⓘ Jefferson Davis ⓘ John Brown ⓘ John C. Calhoun ⓘ Salmon P. Chase ⓘ Stephen A. Douglas ⓘ Thaddeus Stevens ⓘ William H. Seward ⓘ William Lloyd Garrison ⓘ
hasTemporalLocation	antebellum period ⓘ
historicalInterpretation	Northern fear of a slaveholding conspiracy ⓘ
ideologicalOppositionTo	expansion of slavery ⓘ political influence of slaveholders ⓘ
involvesConcept	federalism in the United States ⓘ oligarchy ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ sectionalism in the United States ⓘ states' rights ⓘ territorial expansion of the United States ⓘ
mainRegion	Northern United States ⓘ Southern United States ⓘ
perceivedConspirators	Southern slaveholders ⓘ planter elite ⓘ
perceivedGoal	domination of the federal government ⓘ expansion of slavery into western territories ⓘ protection of slavery at the national level ⓘ
preceded	American Civil War ⓘ secession of Southern states ⓘ
relatedTo	American Civil War ⓘ Bleeding Kansas crisis ⓘ surface form: Bleeding Kansas Compromise of 1850 ⓘ Dred Scott v. Sandford ⓘ Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ⓘ Kansas–Nebraska Act ⓘ Missouri Compromise ⓘ Republican Party ⓘ surface form: Republican Party (United States) History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America ⓘ surface form: Slave Power Wilmot Proviso ⓘ abolitionism in the United States ⓘ
viewpointOf	Republican National Committee ⓘ surface form: Republican Party leaders antislavery politicians ⓘ many Northerners ⓘ

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Kansas–Nebraska Act → relatedConcept → slave power controversy ⓘ

Barnburner Democrats → opposedTo → slave power controversy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Slave Power

The Crime Against Kansas speech → criticized → slave power controversy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Slave Power