Analyze The Consequences Of The Civil War
Before the beginning of the Civil War, Americans tried to resolve slavery by drawing or erasing a geographical line to limit or expand the growth of slavery. These lines were not very affective and changed much too often. It begins with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ends with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861.
The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. It was a judicious compromise with temporary tutelage and then permanent equality. This ordinance covered the Northwest Territory which was the area bordered by the Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Great Lakes. Southern states agreed to the provision of no slavery in this territory, but that didn’t last …show more content…
The compromise granted disproportionate political power to Southern slave states.
The Missouri Compromise in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state but preserved the balance between North and South by carving free- soil Maine out of Massachusetts and prohibiting slavery from territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, north of the line of 36° 30’. This compromise also preserved the shaky compact of the states. Later in 1865, the thirteenth amendment was added to the constitution eight months after the Civil War ended.
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a Free State, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty and ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington, D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the North and South, it did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery and slavery
The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. It was a judicious compromise with temporary tutelage and then permanent equality. This ordinance covered the Northwest Territory which was the area bordered by the Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Great Lakes. Southern states agreed to the provision of no slavery in this territory, but that didn’t last …show more content…
The compromise granted disproportionate political power to Southern slave states.
The Missouri Compromise in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state but preserved the balance between North and South by carving free- soil Maine out of Massachusetts and prohibiting slavery from territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, north of the line of 36° 30’. This compromise also preserved the shaky compact of the states. Later in 1865, the thirteenth amendment was added to the constitution eight months after the Civil War ended.
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a Free State, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty and ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington, D.C., and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the North and South, it did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery and slavery