Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1850 was made in 1850‚ to help the problem of California being turned into a free or slave state. In order to please the North‚ it proposed California would be admitted as a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C. In order to please the South it proposed that Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico‚ and Congress would pass a stronger law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
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Constitutional Convention through the Age of Jackson‚ our nation was forged and held together by compromises.” I chose to cover 5 different compromises from this time period. They are: “The Great Compromise”‚ “The 3/5ths Compromise”‚ “Presidency Compromise”‚ “Tariff Compromise”‚ and “The Missouri Compromise”. At the Constitutional Convention‚ which started May 1887‚ one of the nation’s first compromises was reached. There were two plans that were up for debate. William Paterson of New Jersey had
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Jonathan Sacelaris Professor Crider HIS 173-01 April 1‚ 2013 The Successful Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1850 was a successful negotiation regarding the discord between the slave owners in the South and the opponents of slavery in the North. The Compromise of 1850 included a series of five acts‚ which were aggressively debated within Congress‚ based on the dispute of slavery. Congress hoped to end the strife between the North and South by reaching an agreement that would ease tensions
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The Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise‚ written by Henry Clay‚ attempted to limit the slavery boundaries; it was later declared unconstitutional and is also considered one of many events that led to the American Civil War. The compromise became a precedent for settling subsequent North and South disagreements over slavery and duty issues‚ and it remained in effect until rescinded by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise eased tensions between the North and the South
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the United States Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. Before it was passed the Northern states and Southern states had different ideas of the states. The North wanted to limit slavery‚ while the Southern states wanted more slavery. Missouri wanted to become a slave state in 1820‚ but the Northern states wouldn’t allow it. As a compromise‚ Missouri could be a slave state as long as Maine was added as its own free state‚ thus the Missouri Compromise. Along with these factors a rule of 36⁰30N was
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These failed compromises served purposes other than their intended ones. They served to “feed the extremist factions” in each of the divided sections of America. The deterioration of these compromises aided the progression of groups like the Radical Republicans‚ Know- Nothings‚ Free-Soil Party‚ and Abolitionists. One of the compromises that served to feed these factions was the Missouri Compromise. As stated before‚ this compromise debated on the admission Maine and Missouri as slave or free states
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The Missouri Compromise was a bad solution‚ because it did not solve the slave problem but it was also a good compromise because it lasted for several years and temporarily solved the conflict of whether or not the new states would be slave states or free states. Perhaps the more important aspect of the Missouri Compromise was the agreement that no territory to the north of Missouri’s southern border could enter the Union as a slave state. That part of the compromise effectively stopped slavery from
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Missouri Compromise In 1819‚ the territory of Missouri applied for statehood. It was the first new state to be taken from the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The issue of Missouri attempting to become a state sparked much debate and controversy. The debate in Congress was mainly about sectional power and not whether slavery was right or wrong. The people from the North disagreed with the added representation in Congress and in the Electoral College. Since Missouri would be a slave
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The Virginia Plan‚ New Jersey Plan‚ and the Great Compromise was a big part of America’s future. The Virginia Plan was for a legislative branch. It placed the broad outlines of what became the U.S. Constitution. The New Jersey Plan was a Small State Plan. It was a structure for the United States. The Great Compromise saved the Constitutional Convention. This had to do with the House and the Senate. All of these plans have played a big role in the way that America is today. The Virginia Plan was
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THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 A little after the Manifest Destiny‚ the U.S. faced a series of troubles of sectional balances over whether or not the land acquired should be free or slavery states. The Compromise of 1850‚ proposed by Senator Henry Clay‚ included measures that dealt with the land acquired specifically from the Mexican War. Until 1845‚ it had seemed likely that slavery would be confined to the areas where it already existed. It had been given limits by the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and
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