Before the civil war, what did the u. s. government want to do with slavery?

The efforts to deal with the issue of slavery with legislative compromises were doomed to failure—slavery was never going to be a sustainable condition in a modern democratic country. But the practice was so entrenched in the United States that it could only be resolved by a Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.

the  equal rights amendment  (era) states: "equality  of  rights  under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex." congress first introduced the era in 1923, but the campaign for ratification took off in the 1960s during the  civil rightsmovement.